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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1943 ESTABLISHED 1870
INFORMATION GIVEN
Jon food rationing
I All retailers of rationed pro
fessed foods must register with
the local Rationing Board be-
Hveen April 1-10 on OPA Form
R-1302 which was mailed out
His week from the Rationing
Bice. The information given on
His form by the merchant will
letermine the point value of the
Hunt Purchasing Certificate is-
Hied to him by the Rationing
Hoard. During the month of
March, a merchant may apply to
■.■ Me Board for adjustments in his
inventory if he is understocked
certain commodities.
■ The OPA has declared a holi
■y—a “point” holiday for re
tail food merchants during the
«st two weeks of the new meat
ols-fats rationing. Throughont
tflis period, March 29 through
April 10, retail stores will collect
damps from the customers, but
vJjll not give up points to their
Wholesale suppliers for the new
h rationed foods. Instead, dur
■ g this period they may buy as
Huch as cney require of any of
H e “red stamp” foods in order
t|at they may build up their in
ftories and a “working capi
’ of points.
t was pointed out, however,
tthis “holiday” does not ap
to restaurants, hotels and
h other institutions.
New Rationing Program
On Food By Farmers
hough the n e w rationing
i places no restrictions on
of the rationed foods raised
armers for their own tables,
aid farmers and their families
aie given a full quota of points,
tie government is requesting
tl at farm families retain red
ski nips from their family books
equal to the point value of any
of the rationed foods not pro
duced at home. This means the
snaring by farmers of available
supplies on a voluntary basis
■ ith city dwellers, who must buy
a|l of their meats, cheese, but
t r, etc., from stores.
I When a farmer sells any of his
|)me-processed meat or butter
or other rationed food, however,
i 3 automatically becomes a dis
tributor, and must collect ration
I amps when making a sale and
surrender the collected points to
He OPA.
■■April Stamps Valid Mch. 25
I The total of food ration points
for April will be the same as it is
March -48 of them on the
Hue stamps lettered D, E and
War Ration Book No. 2.
■ There will be one week of
during which both the
and April stamps will be
Shod (Mch. 25-31).
I The month’s stamps—the blue
ones lettered A, B and C—will be
g)od thru March 31, and the
Bw series D, E F, will be avail-
for canned goods from
jHarch 25 thru April 30, OPA
■ OPA has ordered the point
cjjst of prunes and raisins reduc
es from 20 to .12 per pound and
the point values of dry
peas and lentils, cutting
from 8 to 4 points a pound,
also removed dates and figs
the list of rationed foods—
they are in cans or sealed
3firs.
HB. WATSON SWORN IN
| PAYOR WARNER ROBINS
I Charles Bostwick (Boss) Wat
■ K unofficial mayor of Warner
■ iobins (Wellston) for many
■ B ars, was sworn in as mayor of
■ 3is rapidly growing city, Mon
■ fl -V night, by Judge A. M. An-
Br s °n. The following council
■ >en were also inducted into of
£' Boy E. Aven, W. C. Miles,
M. Brundage, and C. R.
Rader.
I arner Robins was incorporat
■ u as a town under the terms of
■ ‘MI introduced in the present
assembly by Senator J.
R' oloodworth. The bill named
H r - Watson, mayor, and the
councilmen. They will serve
Rkil Nov. 1944.
H’ jlj Tons of Scrap were sold in
>y on the recent Salvage Day
wed in Georgia. No report
H ne whole county is available.
PERRY HIGH ACTIVITIES
j Basketball
Perry High school won second
place in the state basketball
tournament held last week in
i Macon. Perry defeated Reids
■ ville by the score of 19 to 18 in
i the opening game. Dick Rough
l ton pulled the game out of the
- fire during the closing second by
] scoring the last four points for
1 Perry.
2 The second game for Perry
was with the favored Athens
' team which was defeated by the
1 score of 26 to 24. Athens was
) picked by all the sports writers
j to win the tournament in a walk.
* Perry’s win was the biggest up
set of the tournament. Perry
• lost to the Cochran team by the
score of 25 to 17 on Saturday
; night,
- Three Perry boys made the All
t State team. They are Albert
1 Skellie, Walter Gray and Lawton
t Daniels.
t The Perry boys are practicing
r for a track team which is a part
■ of their physical fitness program.
| WHS. H. E. TALTOH PISSES
Mrs. Abbie Redding Talton,
age 78, of Kathleen died at a
, Macon hospital at 2a. m. Mon
- day following a brief illness,
1 though she had been in declining
health for several months. She
was the widow of the late Henry
E. Talton, prominent farmer,
merchant, and citizen of Hous
> ton county.
| Funeral services were held
‘ Tuesday at 4 p. m, at the resi
; dence of her son, A. Redding
5 Talton Sr., at Kathleen. Rev.
Gordon King, pastor Elko
: Methodist circuit, was in charge.
Assisting were Rev. Swoll Saw-1
’ yer of Macon. Rev. Mr. Cheshire
of Ashburn, Rev. D. C. Bussell
'of Abbeville. Francis Nunn of |
; Perry sang “O Love that will not |
! let me go” and “Abide Withj
; Me.”
Interment was in the family j
’ lot in the Bonaire cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Messrs. C.E.
I Andrew, C. E. McLendon, John
L. Hodges, S. L. Norwood, J. B.
Hunt, and J. W. Perdue.
Survivors include three sons:
[ A. R. and W.R. of Kathleen and
1 W. C. of Perry; four daughters;
’ Mrs. J, D. Graham of Kathleen;
Mrs. R. P. Walker of Bonaire;
Mrs. J. K. Launius of Ashburn,
3 Mrs. C. W. Gillespie of Abbe
-3 ville; nine grandchildren: Corp.
3 A. R. Talton Jr., Camp Shelby,
1 Miss.; Corp. H. A. Talton, Ga.
Tech., Atlanta; Pvt. Cullen Tal
f I ton. Camp Davis, N. C.; Richard
; C. Talton, Kathleen; Jimmy Tal
; ton, Perry; J. Erwin Bryan, Bir
mingham, Ala.; Carl Gillespie
! Jr. and Abbie Gillespie, Abbe
-3 ville; Mary Launius, Ashburn;
3 and one great grandchild, Erwin
- Bryan Jr.
i Other survivors are three sis
k.lters, Mrs. O. A. Toole, Macon;
Mrs. M. P. Lane, Rockrnart;
t Mrs. S. T. Bryan, Kathleen; two
- brothers, R. H. and D. N. How-
I ard, Kathleen.
} Mrs. Talton was a member of
r Andrew Chapel Methodist
’ church. She was a consecrated
3 Christian and faithful church
- member.
i A devoted mother and an ideal
homemaker, her home was a mec-l
ca for all friends and family con-|
nections who will always cherish |
fond recollections of this happy
place.
5 The beauty and fragrance of
the numerous floral offerings
were eloquent tributes to a beau
■ tiful life spent in radiating cheer
r and good will. The large con
/ course of sorrowing friends and
f relatives bespoke the esteem in j
which this beloved citizen ofi
Houston county was held.
REA BUYS BOND
At their regular meeting on!
March 5, the Board of Directors!
-of the Flint Membership Cor-i
f poration, a cooperative serving!
t 10 counties in Central Georgia,!
. I authorized Superintendent L. C. j
I I Woolard to purchase a $5,000.00
3 Bond on the New Cruiser “At-|
3 lanta.” Floyd H. Tabor is pres-|
ident of this REA cooperative,
which serves Houston county.
The members of the Board re
i gret they are too old to be in the
/ crew on the“ Good Ship Atlanta
t when she and her sister ships
. knock the “O” out of Tojo.
EXPERT EXPLAINS HOW TO MAKE
DEHYDRATING DEVICE AT HOMEi
The Flint Electric Membership
Cooperative of Reynolds, Ga.,
through the manager, L C.
Woolard, arranged for actual
demonstrations of food dehydra
tion to be conducted March 16-19
by Elva A. Bohannan, electrifi
cation specialist, from the Office
of the Administrator, Rural
Electrification Administration,
Saint Louis, Missouri.
One of these meetings was
held Tuesday in the Home Eco
i nomics department of the Perry
High school. County Agent W.
T, Middlebrooks assisted with
the arrangements for the meet
ing.
In addition to dehydration ac
tivities Mrs. Bohannan discussed
care, use and operation of other
home electric appliances.
Mrs. Bohannan showed just
how easily a home-made dehy
drator can he made to help save
tne thousands of tons of food
which go to waste in rural sec
tions every year. This home
made dehydrator, a small
wooden gadget which resembles
a ‘dog house in structure, and
not the kind which accompanies
trouble at home’, can be built
now preparatory to conserving
every ounce of food which other
wise might go to waste during
the coming spring and summer
months. Those precious ounces
or pounds which will be needed
by the American families during
the next year, or which can be
Isold to grocers or a market set
up by farm women to dispose of
their surplus after the family
budget is cared for. The wooden
box which can be made from
I scrap material is called a dehy
drator. At most, if all new ma
: teriai must be used, this dehy
drator can be constructed for less
I than $12.00. If heating wire or
! the small cone shaped bathroom
; heater element cannot he pro
cured then electric light bulbs
| can be used for heating.
j Home-Made Dehydrator
Dehydration is the process by
which nearly all moisture is
slowly removed from the fresh
fruits and vegetables. The de
hydrator is made of plywood or
lumber in the shape of a small
house with a slanted roof when
in use as a dehydrator, or by
means of a hinged top it can be
used as a table top piece of per
manent kitchen equipment,paint
ed the color scheme of the home
foods laboratory or kitchen. It
has insulated walls, the door in
front opens upon a series of
slanted trays, six in number,
built of wood strip runners and
covered with an eight inch gal
vanized metal cloth, on which
the food is placed for dehydra
tion. T h e heating device is
placed at the bottom in the front
of the box, under trays, which
are separated from the heating
element by means of a slanting
baffle sheet of plywood, covered
with sheet asbestos. Behind the
element a small inclosure holds a
fan which is of the small six
inch variety which blows against
the heating element and in this
manner the circulation is secured
which is needed for extracting
the moisture from the foods.
Small ventilators open at the
j bottom and top of the back.
I These ventilators are for letting
I cool air into the box and hot air
out and are used to control ra
pidity of the extracting of the
moisture from the fruits or ve
getables. “That’s all there is to
it,” said Mrs. Bohannan with a
smile.
Mrs. Bohannan explained the
method of dehydration, showing
! many foods which had previously
{been dehydrated. Take a patato
| or an onion, or some beans for
i example, and this is what hap-
I pens:
! These vegetables are peeled, if
!an onion or potato, the onions are
[sliced in rings, placed on a rack
j or in a thin cotton bag and are
j steamed through for the period
| of time necessary for the steam
to have penetrated the onion, the
slices are then placed on a tray
and into the dehydrator which
| has been preheated to around 150
[degrees Fahrenheit. The potato'
gets a bit different treatment.!
It is dropped into salt water, 1
teaspoon salt to the quart of,
water, until all are ready to go
into the steam, no hot water
blanch. If the potatoes are to be
cooked later in the year or as
much as five or six years, hence,
as mashed or whipped potates,
they can be grated, or sliced on
the three-quarter inch slicer of
the combination square kitchen
grater, or if to be used for home
frys or French frys or even scal
loped potatoes, they can be cut
in shoe string lengths or slices
before placing in bags or on the
rack preparatory for the steam
blanch. In many farm kitchens
the homemaker does not have a
rack on legs to hold the food out
of the water but she does have a
big kettle, dish pan or other
large container which she can
use by improvising a steamer by
inverting another smaller pan
which will extend above the
water level. The bags of food
are then placed on trie inverted |
pan and the steam will penetrate,
although it may take a little'
longer time than if a rack were
used. Mrs. Bohannan says,
“Where there is a will, there can
be found away.” Beans are
strung and are also given a steam
blanch. Steaming takes usually
from 10 to 15 minutes, depend
ing upon the thickness of the
slices and the age of the food.
The time of processing or de
hydrating depends upon the
moisture in the food. Pumpkin
and peach halves, for instance, j
both require a little longer period!
of drying time and require a Jit-!
tie higher temperature than!
foods with less moisture. Proper
ly dehydrated foods do not lose
their color but they do turn into
wizened, curled strips from one
fourth to one-half their original
size, and are ready to be packed j
into moisture proof bags or box-|
es. That’s ail there is to it. |
How To Fix
Whenever you have the ‘yen’
for a certain kind of fresh vege
j table or fruit on a cold winter
day, open the desired food pack-1
age, remove the quantity youj
think will be needed for the
meal, and vitalize it. This is a
simple matter, place quantity in
pan, and if in a hurry, use warm
water, not hot, cover the food to
be cooked with twice the quanti
ty of water and if this is not suf
ficient to replace all moisture
previously extracted in dehydra
tion, add more. This can be
done according to your own ideas
as to wnecher the food looks ex
actly like what you placed in the
steam blanch a year or more ago.
When entirely vitalized, cook a
little less time than required for
fresh vegetables or fruit, season
according to the family taste and
serve.
When asked how much food
would be required for a family of
four, the answer was “a small
handful,” If you want beets or
carrots, or if you want a nice big
dish of corn, you might vitalize
three-fourths of a cup. You see
corn shrinks to around thirteen
ounces cut from 20 to 28 ears of
garden-fresh, tender, juicy fresh
corn right off the stalk and
blanched in steam on the ear
then cut as far down into the cob
as necessary to get the whole
kernel.”
Foods have an equally good
flavor as compared with garden
fresh foods, a bit stronger may
be, especially those with min
erals such as sulphur, turnips,
cabbage, and onions which have
a strong odor and darken a bit in
the dehydration process.
The great advantages are; less
work in dehydrating from 83 to
50 pounds of food at one time,
glass jars and rubber rings are
not needed in storage, no danger
of freezing nor of spoiling, food
will keep indefinitely in a dry
place away from the mice, so
little space is needed for storing
dehydrated foods. Dehydrated
foods are just another type of
good food, and when rubber
bands and rings cannot be relied
upon to keep food tightly sealed
this is an excellent way to pre
serve that family foods budget
from the Victory garden being
planned now, for planting at
their time.
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SELECTIVE SERVICE REPORT
I
rive white registrants from
Houston county were inducted at
Fort McPherson on Feb. 16:
George T. Bruce, Perry: Marvin
I'. Holloway, Wellston; George
F. Weed, Hawkinsville No. 1;
Nathan W. Gilbert Jr., Perry;
William J. Hamsley, Hawkins
ville Rt 1. 5 white were reject
ed on that date.
Colored registrants inducted at
Fort Penning on February 8 are:
James C, Dinkins, Macon; Irvin
Daniel Jr., Perry; Nerniah Col
lins, Perry; Chester Harris, Gro
vania; Eddie Williams, Perry,
9 colored were rejected on that
date.
20 white registrants will be
sent to Fort McPherson on April
20 and 30 colored to Fort Penning
on April 8.
RED GROSS ORIVE CANVASS
The program of house to-house
canvassing for the Red Cross
will bo done on March 22, 23. and
24 in Perry by members of the
Sorosis club.
The nation-wide drive for
$120,000,000 for emergency war
relief needs the support of every
citizen, This is our chance to
show the boys out there that the
folks at home are in the war too,
and carrying our share of the
Toad.
| Houston county is trying to
j raise $1,000.00. Maybe th a t
'sounds like a big order, but it is
'only a small thing that we can
do compared to what they are
giving. If everybody helps the
job will be easy. Don’t make
somebody else have to do your
share as well as theirs, because
I the job is going to be done.
And another thing, a house-to-
I house canvass is a pretty big
job for those that are doing it,
but it is infinitely easier if every
body will have their contribution
ready when the canvassers call.
llf husbands and wives want to
j talk it over and decide what
they can give don’t wait until
they get there and then pul
them off. There is time now to
decide what you can give, so
have it ready when you are called
on. The slogan this year is ‘‘Give
Double.” We can do it if we
will.
Publicity Committee
Sorosis Club.
LIBRARY NOTES
An additional hundred books
have been added to the library
to supply the increasing demand.
This selection includes a great
variety of fiction, romance,
mystery and western stories by
the best known authors. Es
pecially fine are the juvenile
books ranging from gaily illus
trated story picture books for the
very young to the latest in fic
tion and non-fiction for the older
boys and girls,
Guadalcanal Diary, is an out
standing book of the war. Rich
ard Tregaskis, the author, is a
star reporter. He accompanied
the first detachment of G. S,
Marines to land at Guadalcanal
and stayed there for months. His
narrative is a breathless account
of the terriffic fight the Marines
put up.
National favorites in the li
brary:
Fiction—-Douglas, The Robe;
Bromfield, Mrs. Parkington;
Davenport, Valley of Decision;
Keys, Crescent Carnival.
Non-fiction —Tregaskis, Gaud
alcanal Diary; Hargrove, Se e
Here Private Hargrove; White.l
They Were Expendible; Vanj
Loon, Van Loon’s Lives.
Library hours: 1:30 p. m. to
6:30 p. m. Monday, Thursday,
and Saturday.
Verniece Beavers, Librarian.
10% OF INCOME |
tis QM QUOTA I
IN WAR BONDS
Men are dying for the Four
Freedoms. The least we can
do here at home is to buy
/rjtf War Bonds —lO% for War
JM Bonds, every pay day.
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PLAN TO STAMP OUT
i! BLACK MARKETS SET
1 The Houston County USDA
! War Board moved into action
this week to help put in opera
> tion the newly-announced na
tional meat management pro
gram, designed to help stamp
out meat “black markets” and
■ provide for an equitable distri
: bution of available meat sup
i plies.
War Board Chairman L, W.
Tabor, who attended a three*
county conference on the pro
- gram, Wednesday in Hawkins
ville, said the meat control plan
‘ will be discussed with all mem-
I bers of the War Board and far
> mer-committeemen at a meeting
to be held here March 20.
Under three food distribution
orders, slaughterers who sell
meat, including farmers and lo
cal butchers, must operate under
, a permit after March 31; all
; livestock dealers must obtain
’ permits to buy and sell, and
; must keep records of their opera
tions; and slaughterers operating
. under federal inspection must
. set aside designated percentages
of their production for war uses.
The set-aside order is already in
* effect.
The new orders are designed
,to provide control over th e
' slaughterer of livestock and the
sale of meat, so that “black
market” operations can be stamp
' ed out and all meat brought into
legitimate channels of trade
[ where jt will be available for
' vyar needs and for fair distribu
[ tion through consumer ration
; ing. The rationing of meats will
begin March 1.
Chairman Tabor warned butch
ers and slaughterers against un
' July large slaughter between
now and Mch. 29. Slaughterings
are limited by the present OPA
meat restriction order, and ex
cess slaughter will be deducted
from the new quotas to be set up
* he warned.
‘ He called on producers, pack
ers, dealers, health authorities,
local law-enforcement officials,
and consumers to help in elimi
nating the illegal slaughtering,
selling, and distribution of meats.
TRAVELER ANO NIUSICI/W AT
HOUSTON LUKE NIGH. 21-28
Lectures on Bible Prophecy
will be given at Houston Lake
Baptist church next week,March
21-28, at Bp. m. C. W. T., by
Ross Wood, famous traveler and
noted lecturer on world condi
tions. Mr. Wood, who has made
a special study of Bible Prophe
cy, will discuss the present and
future of world conditions in the
light of God’s word,
Mr. Wood is a guest and per
sonal friend of Rev. Edwin M.
Clapp, pastor Houston Lake Bap
tist church. The friendship of
these two men has lasted for 25
years, since they were room
i mates in a Y. M. C. A. in Sacra
mento, Calif.
Luring his lectures, Mr. Wood
will discuss our war with Japan
and tell why Japan will be de
feated. Mr. Wood personally
knows Japan and her people,
having traveled extensively in
Japan and in the East.
In addition to being a lecturer
and an author, this versatile
man is also an accomplished mu
sician. For some time, he was
on the radio and is well known
throughout the country as the
“One Man Band,” the man who
I plays several instruments at
I once. Mr. Wood gave concerts
jin Japan and in England where
ne appeared at the Crystal Pal
ace in London.
Next week at Houston Lake,
I he will render some instrumental
music as well as lecture. The
public is invited to attend.
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