Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, September 02, 1943, Image 1

Houston home journal., September 02, 1943, Image 1

About Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1943)

Page of 4

Prev Issue Next Issue

Text PDF JP2 (4.6 MB) Clip/Print Image

Page of 4

Prev Issue Next Issue

Return to Top

Newspaper Page TextVOL. LXXII. No. 35 WAR LOAN DRIVE BEGINS SEPTEMBER 9 Claud E. Andrew, president of p err y Loan and Savings Bank, ha 3 been appointed executive chairman War Finance commit tee of Houston county. In this capacity Mr. Andrew will direct the'third War Loan drive in Houston. The county’s quota is $264,200 in the Drive which gets under way September 9 and con tinues throughout this month. In the second War Loan cam paign Houston oversubscribed its <139.500 quota by 161.1 per cent, buying a total of $224,700 in b °ln speaking of the third War Loan drive, Chairman Andrew made these statements. If you want a simple, direct answer to the question: “What is my part in the Third War Loan?” here it is; Do every thing in your power to back the attack with War jonds. Take every penny you jo not need for necessities—such 13 rent, food, health—and put it into War Bonds. The Treasury Department has let a personal goal for every corking American. Buy at least in extra $lOO bond above your cgular war bond buying during he Third War Loan. That $lOO war bond is the ex ■asomething you will be put- Hing back of the invasion of ■filler’s Europe and the Japa nese occupied Pacific Islands. ■ While Europe and the South ■acific may seem far away ■laces, always keep in mind that ■oys from Houston county are ■ere. ■ Think of invasion in terms of ■e son or brother or father or Hide or dear friend who is ac- Hally facing the Nazis, Fascists Hd the Japs. ■ The Third War Loan is a cam ■aign primarily for us as in dividuals. Each one of us must ■ecide the matter of how far we ■e willing to go to back up ■mericans in uniform. ■ There is still another phase to Backing the attack with War Bonds, It is expressed in one ■(bead word, INFLATION, In flation will eat up your personal ■sources and leave bare hungry flielves. How does inflation ■me into your home? You open ■ie doors yourself if you bid ■gainst your neighbor for dwind ling civilian goods. Take the you want to spend on ■lings you can do without until ■iter the war and invest that in War Bonds. I SALVAGE KITCHEn¥s tablespoonful of house fats saved every day by Houston county’s 2,691 during the second year ■ the WPB fat salvage cam-' ■'gn would provide enough; ■ycerine to make 129,168 anti ■t'craft shells, it has been esti mated. ■al tough only a fraction of this Biount has been saved daily by ■ e average family, the steady ■tease in contributions is very ■couraging. ■.lndications are that nation flde results of the campaign’s ■>tial year, ending the first week ■ July, totaled more than 65,- ■tUOu pounds of household fats, flisod on Qvyj reports for the ■~t eleven months. This isone- ■ r ,d of the annual quota for the fluon of 200,000.000 pounds. ■Georgia is asked bv the gov ■ment to salvage 108,500 lbs. ■ ’ats each month. In BOY COMMISSIONED ■Wt T. Pierce Jr. of Perry, ■ 9 i r f e ceived his commission ■ni lieutenant in ; the Coast ■ 1 , er y Corps upon successfully ■ Pitting the officer candidate K. , a t the Antiaircraft Artil ■7 school, Camp Davis, N. C., ■ Aug. 26. I ®ur Job 5s to Dollars I Bu y ■ V/ar Bonds Every Pay Day MAIL XMAS GIFTS TO I SOLDIERS SEPT. I 5-OCT. 1 5 j The Army Postal Service notl only believes in doing that 1 Christmas shopping and mailing! early, but is pointing the way byi announcing that September 15 to! October 15 will be “Christmas Mailing Month” for gifts to sol diers overseas, according to Lt. C „ ol £ nel Hartley B. Dean, Chief of Postal Section, Headquarters fourth Service Command. These Christmas packages must conform to present limita-' tions as to weight and size which are not over five pounds in weight, 15 inches in length and' 36 inches in length and girth combined. Packages mailed dur ing this period must be packed tightly in metal, wooden or strong double-faced corrugated fiberboard boxes and should be marked “Christmas Gift Parcel.” Only one package will be accept ed for mailing by or on behalf of the same person or concern to or for the same addressee during any one week. This is impor tant, Colonel Dean emphasized and checking by postal officials will be in effect. For Christmas packages mail ing, restrictions are relaxed to make it unnecessary for the mail er to present either a request or an evelope bearing an OPA can cellation at the time of mailing. Perishable articles cannot be mailed. The sending of parcels under the classification of “fra gile” is discouraged, Colonel Dean stated. Intoxicants, in fiamable materials, or any arti cle which might kill or injure another or damage the mails can not be accepted. Addresses must be legible. Par cels addressed properly should show, in addition to the name I and address of sender, the name, rank, Army serial number,branch of service, organization, A. P. O. number of the addressee and the post-office through which the parcels are to be routed. Inscriptions may be placed on the covering of the package pro vided they do not interfere with the address, although stickers or labels resembling postage stamps are not permissable on the out side of parcels. It is pointed out that only with the full cooperation of the pub lic in complying with these regu lations will it be possible for the Army Postal Service to deliver on time the tremendous volume of Christmas mail to American soldiers overseas. SOIL CONSERVATION NEWS As most of us remember dur ing the last war we were called on to make tremendous increases in the production of most crops. We put our shoulders to the wheel and did an excellent job. The American farmers were highly praised by the people of ; the world for the bountiful har vests that they had taken from the soil, but very few of us realized then that by planting i such large acreages to clean till ed row crops without any re gards to proper soil conservation practices we were damaging be- 1 yond repair thousands of acres of our greatest resource—the ; s °il- t-,. ~ The Citizens Fact Finding: ■ Committee recently stated that an area of cropland in Georgia s equal to 12 average counties has ■ been totally destroyed. One half : of the top soil has been washed off an additional 70 counties; and the fertility of 90% of the land has been reduced by growing cultivated crops. It is said ero sion takes 20 times as much plant food from the soil as the grow-: I U1 of course all this didn’t hap-1 pen during the period of greatly : i expanded crop production during the last war, but it was enor-, ■ mously accelerated and signs of• ; this soil wastage can be seen to ! day that occurred at that time. Now we are in another war, a ! bigger war, a more serious war than this country has ever been in before. Again we have been I called upon to increase produc-, tion of feed and food crops more than was ever dreamed of dur-j ing the last war. In this sec-1 tion we have been called on to make tremendous increas *vL the acreage of peanuts. When harvested for the ™ts, there is, no other row crop in the south PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1943 ! SOFTBALL LEAGUE NEWS By G. FRANCIS NUNN - • - j The stage is rapidly being set j for a finish that will be what is j commonly known as a “natural” lin the Community Softball Lea gue, and if next Sunday’s games work out as they easily might, the Bears and the Bulldogs will meet in the last game of the sea son for the second half pennant and the right to meet the Tigers, first half winners, in the playoff. • Just such a climax was reached in the first half, so it seems that the teams have been rather even ly matched all the way, with no one team being able to run off and leave the pack. Last Sunday’s games were all thrillers, and the first one, be tween the Bears and Panthers, set a season’s scoring record with 29 runs crossing the plate— -15 for the Bears and 14 for the Panthers. In addition there were six home runs hit, and the batters in general made th e pitchers miserable by smacking out 28 hits. The Panthers jump ed off to a 5 run lead in their half the first, and normally this would look big enough to win. But the Bears came right back with 7 runs in their half and quickly increased their lead to 11-5. The Panthers never quit trying, however, and came with in one run of tying the score in the ninth when Mgr. Glea Gray hit a homer with one on and one other run crossed the plate, but the game was over when Shur ling lined into a double play. The much battered Tiger team came to life in the second game and soundly thrashed the power ful Bulldogs 4-1. It was the “three old men” of the Tiger team, Anderson, Whipple, and | Skellie, who combined their tal ents for 7 hits and three runs which was enough to win. Other Tigers figured defensively, but this trio accounted for all but one each of the team’s runs and hits. The final game was another battle between the Panthers and j Tigers, and again the Tigers emerged victorious to tie the teams in their “feud” for the season at four games each. Any post-season play-off should cer tainly include the play-off of this tie. The score 5-4 and the game was just that close, with the Panthers always threatening. Shurling led the Panthers at bat with 3 hits, while Nunn topped his team’s attack with four. Hats-off department: It’s hats off to C. A. Jones of the Pan thers, who after hitting a home run the previous Sunday and then being called out for failure to touch third, stepped up his first trip to the plaie Sunday and slammed one of the longest hits of the season for another homer. Other homer hitters: Lasseter 2, G. Gray, B. Etheridge, and Heller. Next Sunday’s games feature the Tigers vs. the Bears, Pan thers vs. Bulldogs, and Bears vs. Bulldogs in that order. The Standings W L Bears 8 2 Bulldogs 7 3 Tigers 6 6 Panthers 1 10 las hard on the land as peanuts. Everything on the land is re moved exposing the soil to the scorching sun of early fall and to the torrential winter rains, which removes precious topsoil and leaves ugly gullies, a condi tion which if not corrected will within a few years ruin the field. Unless we are careful and adopt sound soil conservation practices | thousands of more acres of land fare going to be destroyed by ero -1 sion. j We are now growing more pea nuts than ever before in the his- Itoryofthe South and-are ex ceeding the goals set up last i spring. We are now concerned ! about getting these peanuts har ! vested and in some way they : will be harvested, but don’t for get the land after the peanuts are dug. We have got to grow another crop next yoar and the ! years to follow. Cover up these peanut fields with winter cover crops. Let’s “green up” these fields, not only protecting them from the ravages of erosion but increasing the fertility of the ‘land. HERE’S HOW By W. T. M., County Agent Q. How can I make peanut butter? A. Parch peanuts to a golden brown color in slow oven about 20 minutes. Shell, rub off skins, and grind through meat grinder, using a fine blade. Run through mill two or three times if needed to get smooth texture. Measure peanuts and to each four cups add two teaspoons of salt and mix weli. If Spanish peanuts are used they should provide their own oil; if dry Virginia pea nuts are used they may need ad ditional oil —about % cup melted butter or salad oil to four cups ground peanuts. When well blended, pack in tight contain ers and keep in cool place. If it is to be kept for a long time,pro cess at simmering (180 o) in wat er bath one hour. Peanuts are valuable in diet and making pea nut butter at home from home grown peanuts is an excellent economic practice. Q. How can I qualify my lay ing flock to sell hatching eggs? A. Contact a hatchery in your locality which may be able to use the eggs. To sell hatching eggs your flock must be blood-tested for pullorum disease; this will cost from 3 cents to cents per bird, plus 50 cents flock fee, and must be done by a certified flock-testing agent. Q. What shall I use to disin fect my laying houses? A. Laying houses should be thoroughly cleaned and scrubbed with hot lye water; a good lye water formula is one pound lye to 20 gallons hot water, or one ounce lye to 5 quarts hot water. Dissolve in an iron or wooden vessel since alkali will destroy aluminum or galvanized vessels. Q. How can I get more milk from my dairy herd? A. Extension Service Dairy man, Frank W. Fitch, advises (1) that enough good pasture is the cheapest and best dairy cow 'feed; (2) that plenty of good quality hay will help milk pro duction in winter; (3) that silage for the milking herd be provided, if possible; (4) that the ration should be carefully balanced to meet needs of the cows; (5) that more high quality roughage be provided to reduce amount of feed bought; (6) that calves be fed other feed than milk when possible so the milk can be saved for human food. CENTERVILLE NEWS I Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Rape en tertained with an old-time bar becue dinner Sunday. They had with them their children, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Long and chil dren of Sofkee; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rape, Mr. and Mrs. Joe An drews, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie An drews and children, Centerville; Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Brown, Zol foe Springs, Fla. Mrs. Evie Thurmond and little daughter, Patsy, are visiting Mr. Thurmond’s mother, Mrs. R. L. ; Fountain, Belverdere, S. C. ' Mrs. E. K. Stafford visited Mr. 1 and Mrs. C. P. Stafford Sunday, i Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Garvin had as their guests this week her mother, Mrs. A. P, Brown, of Macon. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Akin, Perry, visited friends here Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Lever ette, Fort Valley, visited Mrs.W. H. Leverette Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. irie Roberts spent several days last week in Atlanta. Mrs. Bill Rodgers of Jackson ville, Fla. visited her mother, Mrs. E. L. Reddy, recently. Little Jimmie Williams cele brated his third birthday Thurs day with a party. About 12 of his little friends were invited to help celebrate on this occasion. METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS Rev. G. E. Clary, district su perintendent of Macon district, will preach next Sunday, Sept.s, at 11:30 a. m. at the Perry , odist church. The pastor, Rev. J. E. Samp -1 ley, will return to his pulpit Sept. 12. Church School--10:15 a. m. Young People’s Service, 7:15 p. m. WITH THE HOUSTON SOIL CONSERVERS By LOUIS SKINNER Soil Conservation Service Albert W. Pratt of Byron came by the office the other day and brought one of the finest sam ples of Kobe Lespedeza I have ever seen. Mr. Pratt has seven acres of this lespedeza along the Macon highway right in front of his home. Mr. Pratt says he is convinced that he can grow, and get good returns from this crop on his farm. 1 might mention that Mr. Pratt said, “While I had my cows grazing on lespede za, they wouldn’t even touch cottonseed meal.” W, B. Miller is mighty proud of the fine crotalaria he has on his farm. There is nothing like it to build up your land, he says. Mr. Miller plans to plant be tween 12 and 15 acres in blue lu pine this time. He intends to get them planted between the first and fifteenth of October which is a very good idea. One of the main objects of a winter cover crop is to protect the land from the winter rains. In order for it to accomplish this purpose, they should be planted early enough so that the winter legumes can get sufficient growth to do this job. More and more farmers are realizing the importance of plant ing these winter cover crops, es pecially behind peanuts as they are one of our most serious land weakening crops. We must pro tect this peanut land, it is of vi tal importance. RATIONING REMINDERS Sept. 12 —T h e brown ration stamps in War Ration Book Three will come into use for the purchase of meats, fats, oils, but ter and cheese. The brown stamps will replace the red ones in War Ration Book Two as the latter are used up. They will have the same point value. Brown stamps A and B, be coming valid on Sept. 12 and 18 respectively, both will expire on Oct. 2. The next four brown stamps, all expiring on Oct, 30, will become valid on the follow ing dates; Stamp C, Sept. 26; Stamp D, Oct. 3; Stamp E, Oct. 10; and Stamp F, Oct. 17. Between Sept. 12, when the first series of brown stamps be comes valid, and Oct. 2, when the final sets of red stamps ex pire, both red and brown stamps will be usable. After Oct. 2 only the brown stamps will be used. Sept. I—Blue1 —Blue Coupons U, V, & W become valid and expire Oct. 20. Sept. 20—Blue Coupons R, S, and T expire. Aug.29-—Red Y becomes valid. Sept. 5—Z becomes valid. Oct. 2—Red X, Y, and Z ex pire. Oct. 31—Shoe Stamp No. 18 in Book 1 expires. September 30 Deadline for tire inspections for holders of A gasoline rations. Canning Sugar Stamps 15 and 16 have been designated by the OPA as use for canning spgar. Each stamp is good for 5 lbs. per person and remains valid from May 24 thru Oct. 31. Aug. 16 —Coupon 14 in Book I, good for 5 lbs. sugar. PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE 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. ANNOUNCEMENTS The Baptist W. M. S. Circles jwill meet Monday 4 p. m. as fol lows: No. 1, Mrs. W. C. Talton; No. 2, Mrs. Robert Kfoemer;No. 3, Mrs. Culma Harris. The Methodist W. S. C. S. will meet Monday, Sept. 6, at 4:30 p. m. at the church. ESTABLISHED 1870 ■:ai—rw—wHf————n—MM—n————wmw LABOR PROBLEM ON ! FARMS NOT SOLVED ( ; The farm labor problem in 1 Houston county is not solved yet ■ but conditions are better than ; two weeks ago and prospects for i help are brighter. W. T. Mid ; dlebrooks, county agent, has : worked untiringly on this prob ? lem for the past two months. I Mr. Middlebrooks is occupied > this week making contracts with i farmers for the government in ' order to obtain war prisoners for • farm labor. In alloting war i prisoners for this purpose, Hous ton and Pulaski counties were I omitted through error or over* i sight on the part of the govern ; ment ofliciais. Mr. Middlebrooks has made numerous telephone ■ calls and several trips to have this error rectified and the way > cleared for Houston to obtain the labor of war prisoners. Temporary harvest labor camps of prisoners of war have been i set up tnis week at Americas, ; Sylvania, Dublin, Albany, Fitz gerald, and Swainsboro to serve i counties surrounding these i towns. Harvest crews are be ■ ing sent into the fields in coun i ties surrounding the permanent prison camps at Augusta, Macon, and Columbus. Houston county • expects to get help from Macon or Fitzgerald. The number of prisoners avail able will not meet the whole ■ emergency in this county or any • other county. Only fifty work ers can be secured for this coun ty. Volunteer workers are still needed, especially to pick cotton. The harvesting of the peanut crop is well underway and will be completed by Sept. 15. At the beginning of the harvest sea ; son, seventy-two farmers needed extra help. This week only four teen farmers have requested the , county agent for additional la bor. These fourteen men need help very badly, however, in or der to save their peaqut crops. Those who can help the farmers in this emergency are urged to notify the County Agent at once. Women and children are in the cotton fields while the men are shaking peanuts. If the weather remains favorable, the cotton can be gathered with the extra labor in view and when the men are able to turn to the cotton crop after completing the peanut harvest. Due to the labor short age this spring, less than 10,000 acres were planted in cotton in Houston county. Be patriotic! Helpyour friends! Save these war crops! Join the Crop Corps today! NEWHARD NAMED DIST. CHMN. BOND CAMPAIGN E. P. Newhard, superinten dent of Penn.-Dixie Cement Corp, of Perry, has been named 1 chairman for the 13th district in the Third War Loan campaign, it has been announced by C. A. 1 Stair, Georgia State chairman of the War Finance Committee. Counties included in the terri i ritory under Mr. Newhard are; ; Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, i Houston, Jeff Davis, Peach, Fu- I laski, Telfair and Wilcox. ij Mr. Stair said that quotas in jthe Third War Loan for all coun ities in the state would be an nounced in a few days. The ac tual campaign begins September the ninth and continues through this month, necessitating im mediate formation of all county organizations. “This will be the biggest mon ey-raising effort ever projected iin Georgia or the nation,” Mr. .(Stair said. “In the Second War j Loan, for example, the total amount of ‘E’, or smaller de j nomination, bonds sold in the (state was $17,000,000 -while in I I the Third War Loan we confi jdently expect to see a minimum lof $35,000,000 of these bonds I bought by Georgia people. 1 “Crops are bringing high i prices, wages are high, and we [believe that people will buy (bonds, both from reasons of na- L tional Security and personal se ‘ cunty in the days after the 1 war.” Mrs. J. J. Harvard of Haw -1 kinsville is visiting her daugh ter, Mrs. Freeman Cabero, and Mr. Cabero.