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\QL. LXXII. No. 25. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1943 ESTARI TSHF.D 1870
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•EANUT ALLOTMENT
& QUOTAS REVOKED
Actions designed to encourage
production and
D facilitate harvesting and
Marketing of peanuts this year
ave been announced by the War
ood Administration, it was dis
losed this week by T. R. Breed
ike, chairman of the State
■SUA War Board.
■ The developments are:
I (1) Termination of the 1943
national marketing quota on
■eanuts.
I (2) Revocation of the nation
al peanut acreage allotment for
■eanuts produced in 1943.
I (3) Designation of the Com
jh idity Credit Corporation as the
|ole purchaser of farmers’ stock
]§43-crop peanuts.
| (4) Announcement of a three
way plan for the purchase of
leanut pickers.
9ln striking 1943 peanut mar
lilting quotas from the books,
me War Food Administration in
dicated that the action was
♦necessary to effectuate the de
clared policy of the Agricultural
idjustment Act of 1938 and in!;
firder to meet the present nation- ;
al need for increased production i
ol vegetable food and feed pro-
Bicts,”
■Under the purchase program, <
I th CCC will operate through i
■la'.dJers who will purchase, (
Bore, and sell farmers’ stock <
Banuts only. The normal trade
flannels, including peanut pro- <
dicing cooperative associations, I
■ushers, and shellers, will beji
Inployed as agents under hand-11
Ills’ contracts. Purchases from i
producers will be made at uni- ;
firm prices averaging $l4O a ton 1
rer Spanish and Virginia types, t
■id $l3O a ton for runner type j
Hilts, with appropriate differen- 1
talsfor grades. These prices, <
I lough about 17 percent below t
the ceiling prices for farmers’ I
s ock, are approximately 75 per
mit above the value of nuts (
I hen sold for crushing for oil s
iid meal. c
I Mr. Breedlove said three plans r
are available for growers wish- i
itg to buy peanut pickers after t
war board approval of purchase 1
■plications. s
|l. As in the past, growers 1
Bay buy for cash. s
■2. They may pay at least $2OO ]
■own, and the balance in equal i
■stallments on December 1,1943 '
■id October 1, 1944.
■3. Or they may pay less than 1
KUO down at the time the picker
■ delivered, and thereafter, on 4
■e last day of each month dur-, i
fg the 1943 and 1944 harvesting
Stusons, will be expected to pay, t
■ minimum of $3 for each ton of I
■eanuts threshed during that
■onth. The balance must be
P> d on or before May 15,1945.
■ Except in unusual cases, he
Bointed out, recommendations on
■m purchase of peanut pickers (
■ill be given by the county wam (
Board only where the tonnage to j
Be picken from the 1943 crop is
■OO tons or more, I
Agood poultryman will watch
is dock closely and cull regular- <
the Georgia Agricultural Ex- ]
psion Service says. It is a i
of feed to allow a non
>i’oducer to remain in the flock.
Vitamin C cannot be stored in
he body. It is necessary to eat
lo me food every day that con- ,
a ins this vitamin.
Rotenone is one of the best
reneral insecticides for garden '■
lse - according to Georgia Agri
mltural Extension Service horti
culturists. 1
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Aith each 500 pound bale of j
otton there is produced 900
Bpunds of cotton seed which will
i’ield 140 pounds of high grade .
iegetable oil, 400 pounds of pro-| ]
|ein meal and cake, 240 pounds 1 .
hulls and 81 pounds of lintersj;
i or smokeless powder.
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■ Georgia farmers are paying I
P ( me attention to soil building, |
making other adjustments to U
Jitter their systems of farming, i
—
I be sure any place where eggs
f r - kept is free from odors. Eggs
f odors readily and will be-
E me inedible if kept under un-
P'-iirable conditions.
MEMORIAL SERVICE
for pfc. w.b. whitten;
A memorial service for Pfc. I
Walter Brown Whitten, U. s! 1
Army, was held Sunday at 3 p.!
m. at the home of his parents, I
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Whitten in
Perry. Rev. J. A. Ivey and
Rev. C. H. Tucker conducted the
service. Only the family and
close relatives were present.
Pfc. Whitten died June 11 of
malarial fever in a Japanese
prison camp in the Philippine
Islands. He died a few days
Prior to his 24th birthday.
Survivors include his parents;
his wife who was Miss Ida Stem-!
bridge; two brothers, Cadet
James Whitten, U. S. Air Forc
es, Eufaula, Ala. and Otis Lee
Whitten of Perry.
SOFTBALL LEAGUE NEWS
In the fastest and prettiest
game of the season, the Panth
ers handed the Tigers another
defeat to retain a glimmer of
hope that they might gain a tie
lor the first half chompionship.
The score was 4—3, and that’s
all that will show in the stand-1
ings, but the story includes much
more than that. It tells of how,
when Mgr - Walker was unable
to put enough of his own team
on the field, Mgr. Skellie allowed
him to select two topnotch play
ers from other teams; of how
eight of the nine innings Jack
Wilson held the Panthers hitless;
of how the Tiger infield, hand
ling all kinds of hops, fielded 25
chances with but two errors; of
how the Panthers swung and
missed and topped and popped
and managed to get just three
balls out of the infield; but in
the end, it still tells that the Ti- i
gers lost the game they needed
to sew up the first half pennant,
and so must win next Sunday or
else must pull for the Panthers
to lose in order to escape a tie.
In the second game, the Bull
dogs stopped the Bears winning
streak at four straight and their I
own losing streak at the same,
number in licking the Bears 7—6
in a rather loose game that saw
the lead change hands at least
four times. The Bulldogs were
stimulated by the return to the
lineup of their Mgr. Bill Mar
shall, and their star first sacker,
Pete Davis, who drove in three
runs with his big bat. Walter
Gray hit a home run in the first
for the losers, while A. Skellie
led the winners with three hits.
Next Sunday winds up the
first half unless a playoff is
necessary, and a meeting of the
league directors this week will
determine the constitution of the
teams for the second half.
CITY NEWS ITEMS
Robert T. Tuggle has been
elected chief of police for the
city of Perry to serve during the
illness of H. D. Gordy, chief.
The bonds voted May 31 by
the citizens, to be issued for the
purpose of building adequate
sewer system for the city, were
validated Saturday, June 19, be
fore Judge A.' M. Anderson at j
the Houston county court house.
FOOD POISONING
Some persons may now be can
ning food at home for the first
time. They should be reminded
that canned foods must be
thoroughly sterilized to safe
guard against botulism, a highly
fatal type of food poisoning.
Most cases of this kind that have
occurred involved vegetables;but \
fruit, meat, and fish were also at)
times incriminated. Food poison-1
ing from commercially canned,
foods is actually rare.
Canned foods may be kept in I
the home for longer periods than |
has been the custom in other;
years. It is then doubly neces
sary to make sure that the can;
has not become damaged, allow-j
ing entry to disease-producing
bacteria. Suspected foods should
never be tasted to discover spoil- i
age, since even small amounts of
some bacterially infested foods
can cause serious illness or death.
Bulging of the ends of cans,
seepage over the tops of glass
containers, and discoloration of
the food are all danger signals of
'spoilage. —Ga. Medical News.
! FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF
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• U. S. Treasury
STATE’S PEACH CROP
ESTIMATES ALL LOW
j “Georgia, which for many
years has advertised itself as
‘The Peach State,’ stands to lose
that distinction —temporarily, at
least,” declares an article in
Business Week. “While not
| likely to lose its ranking as the
|nation’s No. 2 peach-producing
j state, this year’s crop hardly
i will be worth bragging about.
| As in all other Southeastern fruit
j growing states Georgia’s current
icrop was hard hit by frosts and
freezes in March and April,
j “Just how small the 1943 crop
will be, nobody seems to know |
exactly. Estimates from agri-!
cultural experts range from 16'
per cent to 50 per cent of nor
mal. On one point they all'
agree, however, and that is that
1943’s yield will be the smallest
in many years, aud perhaps in
the history of the industry.
“W. C. Bewley, general man
ager of the Georgia Peach Grow
ers’ Exchange of Macon, Ga., is
among the most pessimistic. In
a statement estimating the crop
at 16 per cent of normal, he said
forecasts set the total number of
carloads shipped from the state
at 2,195 this season compared
with a normal movement of 12,-
500 carloads. He stated the de
mand will greatly exceed the
supply everywhere.
Dr. F. F. Cowart, of the Geor
gia Experiment Station, is a bit
more hopeful. He estimates the
Georgia peach produciion at
about 2,500,000 bushels, a pro- '
duction of about one-third of last'
year’s crop and about half of i
the yearly average for the pre-|
ceding ten-year period. Th e>
I freezes killed at least 50 per cent |
[of the flower buds on most va- >
j rieties.
RATIONING REMINDERS
June 30—Coffee coupon No. 24
expires.
Red Stamp J valid thru June.
Red Stamps K, L, M, N, P, be
come valid on successive Sun
days thru month of June.
Blue Stamps K, L, M became
valid May 21 and continue good
through month of June and thru
July 7.
! June 30 —Deadline for tire in
spections for holders of B gaso
line rations.
j September 30—Deadline for
tire inspections for holders of A
gasoline rations. J
; July 21—Gasoline coupon No.
i 5 expires; good for 3 gallons.
Canning Sugar
Stamps 15 and 16 have been!
designated by the OPA as usej
for canning sugar. Each stamp
is good for 5 lbs. per person and
remains valid from May 24 thru
Oct. 31.
Aug. 15 —Coupon 13 in Book I,
good for 5 lbs, sugar, expires.
' First Vice Presidents
John Adams and Thomas Jeffer
son were the first two vice pre»i
dt«Ui.
i DID YOU KNOW. .. ?
About 40 percent of the cal
ories in the food we eat comes
from meat and livestock pro
ducts. Milk, dairy products,
pork and lard make up 3-4 of this
group.
If we used our U. S. corn cropi
entirely fo r human food, it
would supply the country with
its food requirement of calories
for over two years.
Twenty five percent of all cat
tle slaughtered in the past three
months has gone into black
markets.
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The average Korean tenant’s
(share of his crop, when all de
ductions are made by the Japa
nese, gives him an annual income
of about $lO.OO.
Although Hawaii is entirely
agricultural, 85 percent of its
food is imported.
The United States produces
more than half of the world’s
corn crop, but less than one
sixth of the world’s wheat.
A soldier receives coffee 40
times every 30 days on the U. S.
Army ration.
Fruits and vegetables consti
tute 35 ounces of the total 88
ounces a U. S. soldier is given
(under the Army ration.
Less than 1 percent of the
United States beef production
has been sent abroad under
Lend-Lease programs.
The United States spends 17
| billion dollars for food in a nor
) mal year.
One ship can transport 6,000
i barrels of dried whole milk —one
year’s production of about 500
farms.
Farm and city groups through
out the State will team up to
produce a record crop of food in
1943.
Dehydration this year will re
lease 100,000 tons of metal that
otherwise would have been need
ed for canning.
After four years of the school
lunch programs in Fulton county
(Ga.) schools, cases of under-nu
trition had dropped from 34.9 to
18.1 percent.
Food shortages in this country
are largely due to increased de
mands on the part of the public,
as a result of incomes which
jumped from 60 to 135 billion
dollars a year.
Food trade advisory commit
tees, working closely with the
War Food Administration, are
being formed in every county in
the U. S. on a voluntary basis.
Wheat from Canada and food
I from the U. S. has cut the num
ber of deaths in Athens, Greece,
by a thousand a day.
Soya products, in soups,bread,
cereals and mixed foods, will be
ICITY’S FIRST FLORIST |
1 SHOP TO OPEN JULY 61
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Perry is to have its first Florist ;
Shop in the near future. Watson
and Whipple have announced
that they will go into the florist
business in July with a formal
opening on July 6.
The business will be located in
Watson and Whipple Funeral
Home on Main street. Modern
equipment including a large re
frigerator is being installed.
This local concern will have
flowers for all occasions, wed
dings, parties, funerals; as well
as novelties and corsage arrange
ments. Cut flowers and pot
plants will be on sale at all times.
The designing will be done by
Mrs. Felton Norwood and Mrs.
W. K. Whipple who are now
taking a course in floral design
ing and arranging.
The public is invited to attend
the formal opening Tuesday,
July 6, between the hours of 5
p. m. and JO p. m. Flower fa
vors will be given all visitors.
SELECTIVE SERVICE REPORT
The following registrants are
delinquent with the Local Board:
White—David Thomas John
son, Wellston, Ga.
Colored—Albert Tilmon, Per
ry: Willie B. Smith, Byron; Will
Bryant, Kathleen; Johnnie Baby
Williams, Fort Valley: Obie Du
hart. Hawkinsville; A, C. Robi
son, Kathleen; Jim Biling,Wells
ton; Buddy Dixon, Perry; Sam
McCoy, Avondale: Lewis Wil
liams, Perry; Enoch Turner, Per
ry; Freddie Lee Woolfolk, Perry
and Miami, Fla.; Henry Preston
Bell, Unadilla; Lundy Kaigler,
Perry.
Anyone knowing the where
abouts of any of the above,please
notify the County Selective Ser
vice Board.
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
j Since May, 1942, a total of
4,900 teachers have left schools
in Georgia to accept war jobs or
enter the military services, ac
cording to figures released re
leased by the National Educa
tion Association. Figures from
the State Educational Depart
ment showed a total of 21,912
teachers employed in the state
during the fiscal year 1941-1942.
Leading the nation in per
centage in 'the drive, Georgia
teachers have passed their $7,-
500 quota of the war and peace
fund of the National Education
Association, according uj Ralph
L. Ramsey, secretary of the as
sociation’s Georgia branch, lie
said that the fund is for promo
tion of federal aid to state edu--
education systems.
Georg'.a farm prices continued
at fairly stable levels during the
past month, with the average
received by farmers for theii
produce at the hignest mark it
has reached since August, 1924,
the Bureau of Agricultural Eeo- j
nomics reported. The index for
' all commodities, based on the
| 1909-14 average, stood at IG2 on
May 15, the same as on April 15,
but considerably above the 148
index for May 15, 1942.
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NOTICE
A Permanent Registration
■ Book is being made for the Vot
ers of Houston County. Please
come by my office as early as
possible and register, in order
that the book might be com-1
pleted.
; t M. E. AKIN,
Tax Collector Houston County,;
Perry, Ga.
a common ingredient by next
winter.
I England has agreed to supply
our U. S. troops in the European
theatre with 400 million pounds
’ of food in 1943.
i Per capita consumption of all
I I meats in 1935-1939 was 12G lbs.
: Estimated demand in 1943 would
Tun as high as 160 pounds, with
1 about 125 pounds available under
• the rationing program.
Production of eggs during the
j first quarter of 1943 was up 16
; percent above the same period
: last year.
OPA FIXES CEILING
! PRICES IN THIS AREA
i
The Office of Price Adminis-
Itration Saturday announced the
establishment of dollars and
cents ceiling prices on nearly
1000 items in the housewife’s
market basket purchases in the
Macon marketing area.
The ceilings became ef
fective Monday in Macon and 20
middle Georgia counties, and
represent the highest prices’ for
which these food items can be
sold or purchased at retail in the
area, according to E. A. Thorn -
well, Atlanta district OPA di
rector. He pointed out, how
ever, that “retail route sellers,”
whose sales are from trucks, are
not covered by these ceilings.
Prices are given for grocery
stores in four general classes,
distinguished on the basis of an
nual gross sales. “Class 1”
stores are “independents” with
annual gross sales of less than
$50,000. “Class 2” stores are
also “independents” with gross
sales of less than $250,000. “Class
3” stores are others with gross
sales of less than $250,000, and
“Class 4” stores are those with
an annual gross in excess of
$250,000. “Independents” are
classified as retailers who are
not associated under one owner
ship with four or more other
stores with a combined annual
gross of $500,000 or more.
Counties included under the
order which set up the ceilings
are Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley,
Crawford, Dodge, Hahcock,
Houston, Johnson, Jones, La
mar, Laurens, Macon, Monroe,
Peach, Pulaski, Putnam, Taylor,
Twiggs, Washington and Wilkin
son counties.
Housewives are asked to save
price chart published Sunday in
Macon papers and to compare
prices in local stores with these
OPA prices.
Violations of these prices
should be reported immediately
to the County Rationing Board
Office or to Price Panel mem
bers, Rev. J. A. Ivey, Rev. M.
D. Agerton, and D. M. Ryle.
BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sunday School, 10:15 a. m.
Morning Worship Service 11:30.
Evening Worship 8:00 p. m.
Prayer Service Wednesday,
8:00 p. m.
The public is cordially invited
to all services.
Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor.
METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Church School--10:15 a. m.
Church Services, 11:30 a. m.,
and 8 p, m.
Young People’s Service, 7:00
p. rn.
Prayer Service Wednesday
night, 7:30 o’clock.
Rev. J. E. Sarnpley, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN MCE
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.
I The public is cordially invited
! to all these services.
J Rev. M. 1). Agerton, Pastor.
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