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VOL. LXXII. No. 43
HOUSTON SCHOOLS
GIVEN FEDERAL AID
Houston county has been al
lotted $67,830 of federal funds
under the Lanham Act tor the
maintenance and operation of
schools. This allotment was
granted due to increased popula
tion in a defense area.
News of this federal grant was
received Monday by County
School Supt, F. M. Greene in a
telegram from Senator Walter F.
George. This money will be spent
for salaries of extra teachers, bus
drivers, and janitors and for in
cidentals, Mr. Green stated.
Houston county was allotted
|46,000 this summer from this
same Lanham fund for the main
tenance of Nursery Schools and
Day Care Centers to care for the
children of mothers employed in
war industry. The Nursery
Schools are for pre-school age
children and the centers for the
care of school children before
and after school.
There are two Nursery Schools
at Warner Robins and one at
Perry. There is one Center at
Warner Robins with two teach
ers employed.
Housing Grant
Houston county has also had
two housing projects approved
this month. Twenty F. H. A.
houses have been approved for
Perry and 200 for Warner Rob
ins. In addition to these, War
ner Robins is to have 1,820 tem
porary housing units.
The houses in Perry will be
constructed by Perry Homes,lnc.
of which J.P. Etheridge is presi
dent and active manager.
Pill. 10 SPONSOR CARNIVAL
The Perry P, T. A. will spon
sor a Hallowe’en Carnival Fri
day night at 7 o’clock at the
Basket-ball Court. Weiners,
sandwiches, and drinks will be
sold for supper. Candy and
cakes will be on sale.
A country store will sell home
canned fruits, vegetables, and
jellies. Bring your ration books
to buy these.
The school is conducting a pop
ularity contest to elect the Car
nival Queen.
Plenty of fun and food for
everybody! Come one! Come all!
FLUNG CROSS AWARDED
10 CAP!. JOSHUA BARNES
The Distinguished Flying Cross
has been awarded to Capt. Joshua
H. Barnes, Jr. of Paris, Ky.
"for extraordinary achievement
while participating in 200 hours
of operational flight missions in
the Southwest Pacific Area. The
operations included bombing
missions against enemy air
dromes and installations and at
tacks on hostile naval vessels and
shipping. Throughout these
operations, Capt. Barnes demon
strated outstanding ability,
courage, and devotion to duty.”
Capt. Barnes is the nephew of
Mrs. C. G. Harris of Perry and
has visited here. His mother
was Miss Maybelle Dasher of
Uerry and Macon.
He is on active duty with a
bombardment squadron of the
Fifth Air Force.
dove season changed;
HUNTERS GAIN 12 DAYS
The season for hunting doves
in Georgia has been extended
trom 30 to 42 days and the dates
have been changed from Novem
ber 20-December 19 to December
ll, according to the
State Game and Fish Commis
sion.
, The U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service made the change after a
conference between officials of
several southern states and the
” ildlife Service.
It was a direct result of an ap
peal made by the Georgia Com
mission, which argued that a
longer season would not result in
excessive kills in view of the
shell shortage and increase in
J,oves._ Other states backed
Georgia’s claim and the decision
J v as approved last week by the
by the Department of Interior
Authority for all migatory birds^
WITH THE HOUSTON
SOIL CONSERVERS
By LOUIS SKINNER
Soil Conservation Service
S. A. Nunn, a District co-l
operator, mowed his k u d z u
meadow strip for hay the other
day, It was a little late to cut
it, after frost had nipped it a
little, but it still made a fairly
good yield of hay.
Mr. Nunn also sowed over a
hundred acres in blue lupine last
week. The lupine was sown, 1
immediately after the peanuts
were dug and stacked. This
will certainly make excellent
cover for that peanut land.
Mr. Traylor, administrative of
ficer, advises me that about all
the blue lupine seed are gone,
but if anyone is interested in
getting some he can transfer
some lupine seed from Dooly
county to this county.
A meeting was held, by the
Middle Western Ocmulgee River
Soil Conservation District Board
of Supervisors, last Friday in
Montezuma, Ga., S. W, Hickson,
who is chairman of the board of
Supervisors, presided over the
meeting. Besides the supervis
ors, the meeting was attended by
representatives of the SCS and
Extension service from Athens,
District Conservationist, Soil
Surveyor, County Agents, Work
Unit Conservationists, farmers
and business men from the coun
ties of this district. The meet
ing was held to lay plans for the
next three months, and to dis
cuss soil conservation problems.
A terracing demonstration was
held, showing those present the
correct procedure and cost of
building a broad base type
terrace.
RATIONING REMINDERS
15,613 copies of War Ration
Book IV were issued in Houston
county last week. 5,619 were is
sued at Warner Robins and 9,-
994 in Perry to white and colored
people.
Those who did not apply for
Book IV last week may apply at
the rationing office in Perry this
week or any time in the future.
Lost Ration Books should be
returned immediately by the
finder to the Rationing office.
Ration Books are government
property and cannot be legally
retained by anyone except those
to whom they are issued.
Gasoline
Nov. B—No. 6 Coupon in A
gas ration book expires.
Nov. 9 —No. 8 coupons in “A”
I books become effective and must
.last through Feb. 8.
Applications for renewal of A
Gasoline Books will be accepted
from Sept. 22. Application
blanks will be mailed out upon
request and application will be
accepted through the mail but
tire inspection records must be
enclosed together with the Back
Cover of the present ‘‘A”or‘‘D”
ration book showing the signa
ture and address on the lines
provided. Call in person or
write for application blank as
soon as convenient.
Tirea
Oct. 31—Deadline for Hre in
spection for holders of “B” ra
tions.
Fuel Oil
Jan. 3, 1944—Period 1 coupons
valid through this date.
Shoes
Stamp No. 18 valid for one pair
of shoes for indefinite period.
Stamp lon “airplane” sheet in
Book 3 valid for one pair Nov. I.
Meats and Fats
Oct. 30—Brown Stamps C, D,
E, F expire.
Processed Foods
Nov. 20—Blue stamps X. Y
Z valid through this date.
The green stamps of the new
War Ration Book 4 will be used
!to buy canned fruits and vege
tables beginning November 1.
The first series of green stamps
—A, B and C—will be valid from
November 1 through Dec 1 20.
Canning Sugar
Stamps 15 and 16 have been
designated by the OPA as use
for canning sugar. Each stamp
is good for 5 lbs. per person and
remains valid from May 24 thru
Oct. 31. . D . T
Oct. 31—Coupon 14 in Book 1,
good for 5 lbs. sugar expires.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1943
FOREST FIRE PREVENTION
CAMPAIGNjIPENSJN SOUTH
Recognition of the prime im-.
portance of lumber and other
forest products in the prosecu
tion of the war is the keynote of
the 1943-44 Wartime Forest Fire
Prevention Campaign which is
being conducted in eleven South
ern States.
“With lumber high on the list
of critical war materials/ forest
fire prevention assumes a greater
importance this year than at any
time in the Nation’s* history.”
points out State Forester J. M.
Tinker, who is acting as coordi
nator among state and federal
personnel in bringing campaign
information before the Georgia
public.
The campaign was timed to co
incide with the Southland’s
greatest forest fire danger pe
riod, extending from October
into the late spring.
The U. S. Department of Ag
riculture points out that last year
such fires in the South alone cost
$28,000,000 in damage—to say
nothing of millions of man hours
of labor diverted from war pro
duction to put out fires. Besides
the valuable wood and the man
hours lost forever to the war ef
fort, smoke palls from such fires
near air fields cost suveral thous
and hours of training of fledge
ling pilots. Fires in coastal areas
aided enemy submarine attacks
at night by silhouetting ships.
The smoke palls also provided a
protective screen for underseas
marauders.
Recognizing importance of
wartime forest fire prevention,
such organizations as 4-H Clubs,
women’s and civic clubs, Cham
bers of Commerce, railroads and
I forest industries are helping per
sonnel of the U. S. Forest Ser
vice and the Georgia Depart
ment of Forestry distribute ed
ucational material. Newspapers
and radio stations are cooperat
ing by donating space and time,
and through the use of sponsor
ed ads.
BIGGER STATE FAIR
BEGINS 10 DAY RUN
MACON, Ga.—Streamlined to
the war theme in every way, the
88th annual exhibition of the
Georgia State Fair started yester
day, Oct. 27, in Macon. Over
coming all hindrances of war
time operation, this year’s Vic
tory Fair is expected to have the
largest number of agricultural,
home science and livestock ex
hibits in history.
Under the operation of the
Macon Exchange Club, the big
Fair has been substantially en
larged in practically every de
partment.
The annual educational and
entertainment treat will have a
longer run this year than former
ly, Gates opening on Oct. 27
will not be shut until Saturday
night, Nov. 6.
This extension was authorized
so that ample opportunity will be
given to persons from all over
the state to visit the great agri
cultural and livestock exposition.
As in the past, the Georgia Fu
ture Farmers will have their
many contests and livestock ex
hibits at the fair. Also the 4-H
clubs will be well represented.
There will be special swine, cat
tle and poultry shows, and one
comprehensive display will be de
voted entirely to Food-For-Vic
tory exhibits.
Other enlarged departments
will include the women’s build
ing, with outstanding exhibits in
women’s home industry, culi
nary accomplishments and need
ilework; the flower show, and ail
i branches of the livestock depart-
Jment.
More entertainment has been
|added this year, too, with the
1 World of Mirth Shows on the
j midway, featuring 25 shows and
122 rides.
A program of free circus thrill
acts will be presented each after
! noon and night.
E. Ross Jordan, general man
ager of the fair, is highly opti
imistic over prospects for the fair
| this year and predicts it will be
the greatest state-wide exposi
tion in the entire southern states.
Seventy-five percent of the
country’s food production for
this year has been allocated for
civilian use.
UNITED WAR FUND DRIVE 1—
The National War Fund, Inc.J
came into being this year in or
der that all war relief agencies
could be consolidated into one
campaign for funds.
The grim business of war is to
to take life. . . with guns, tanks,
bombers, battleships.
The humanitarian business of
democratic civilians is to salvage
life and hope, .with foods, cloth
ing, medical supplies, train
ing, morale, advice and financial
assistance.
Paradoxically, under cover of
the greatest war the world
has ever known, the greatest
salvage attempts are being made,
unitedly, by many lorces for
good, organized into the Nation
al War Fund. And if we are to
win the peace, it is essential that
we continue this salvage of the
victims of war, starvation, dis
possession, iiiness, confusion.
While organized primarily as
a financing effort, if we think of
the National War Fund merely
as a means of raising money it
will be a poverty-stricken idea,
however great the financial suc
cess. Of course, the obvious, di
rect, and inescapable duty is to
secure funds for the agencies
connected with the war. The
social implications growing out
of this effort to raise money may J
be of sweeping importance.
The American people foresee
with increasing clarity that what
we now do trom day to day will
determine the shape of things to
come, and either make a better
world possible or makes its real
ization more difficult.
We look eagerly forward to a
world where cooperation will re
place isolationism and destruc
tive rivalry. It is the first and
obvious purpose of the National
War Fund to put an end to such
destructive rivalry in the awak
ening of the public interest and
the solicitation of funds from the
1 public for the war agencies.
| We are not fighting this war
i alone; the lives of our sons and
brotners are dependent upon the
fortitude of our Allies. Those
allies live in the very theatre of
war, while we are protected from
bombing, shielded from the de
struction of our cities, and saved
from the dislocation of the es
sential services of production,
transportation, and communica
tion. They bear burdens we are
not called upon to share directly,
but we can help them with our
guts. Tne principle of the Unit
ed iNatians can be achieved only
if the cooperation of our own
Army and Navy witn those of
Allies, and the identity of our
public interest with the public
interest of our Allies, are recog
nized and implemented. If we
do nut bring relief and mitiga
tion to our Allies, not in compe
tition one nation with another
but with full and free coopera
tive effort, we impair the politi
cal and social unity without
which military unity, even
though successful, would he
fruitless.
Tne National War Fund, there
fore, accepts the full implication
of that concept of solidarity of
interest, and abolishes rivalry in
the search for adequate financ
ing. It substitutes a united ef
fort upon the part of all the
agencies which seek to supple
ment official payments and ser
vices to our armed forces and to
our Allies abroad. It expresses
those warm human sympathies
and those philanthropic impulses
which mean so much in cement
ing che friendship of nations.
“I am glad to be an American”
is a slogan so often heard —We
have a great opportunity. We
Americans have more money
than theie are things to buy and
if we don’t rally to this cause
sponsored by the National War
Fund there is no tloubt but that
our Government will take care of
these needs —through some gov
ernmental agency now establish
ed or establish another - and use
tax monies. Such a step would
take away from us Americans,as
individuals, the opportunity to
show the world that we are in
terested in a better world. . . a
world that can only survive
through a unity and cooperation
| of people.
We can no longer stand idly
by, well fed and well clothed,and
enjoy the luxuries we possess
while so much of the world, rav
ished by war, is unkempt and
j starving. We must rally to this
! War Fund Drive!
LANDOWNERS URGED
TO CUT PULP WOOD |
Appeal was made this week by 1
the state department of forestry
to those who have potential pulp
wood on their land to think about
the service they can render their
country here at home by placing
this pulpwood on the market.
“Few people,” the statement
reads, realize the extensive use
of pulpwood in the carrying on
of war. It is used in the manu
facture of explosives,parachutes,
clothing, powder bags, cardboard
containers for war materials,and
many other things too numerous
to mention.
“Have you a tract of timber
that needs thinning or cleaning?
If so, then why not thin or clean
it and sell the pulpwood to one
of the mills drawing from this
section? It takes about 15 cords
to load a car and you can receive
$6.80 per cord for pine pulpwood
and $7.30 per cord for hardwood
pulpwood F. O. B. caron almost
any railroad loading point serv
ing this section.
“It might require some effort
to get your pulpwood cut,hauled,
and loaded on the car hut you
will not only be helping the boys
at the fighting front, you will
also be helping your stand of
timber. When nature reseeds
and grows trees of the forest, it
does not give the best spacing
for each tree so that it can make
its most rapid growth. Usually
nature seeds too freely and pro
duces thickets instead of evenly
spaced stands.
“When trees have grown up
rapidly to sapling size, there
comes a time when their growth
slows down; in fact, they reach a
point of stagnation where they
are not making any appreciable
growth. By proper thinnings,
you will be taking out ill-formed,
forked and diseased trees, thus
giving the desirable trees room to
make their most rapid growth
and produce the largest amount
of wood in the shortest time.
Why not help your country and
your timber too- by thinning it?
“If you desire information or
advice on the thinning of forest
trees, consult your nearest dis
trict forester or write to the
Georgia Department of Forestry,
State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga.”
METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Rally Day will be observed by
the Church Scnoul on Sunday,
Oct. 31 An attendance goal ol
225 has been set fur that day.
Church Services, 11:30 a. m.,
and 7:30 p. rn.
Church Scnoul-10:15 a, m
Young People’s Service, 6:30
p. m.
Rev. J. E. Sampley, Pastor.
BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sunday School, 10:15 a. m.
Morning Worship Service 11:30.
Evening Worship 7:30 p. m.
Prayer Service Wednesday,
7:30 p. m.
The public is cordially invited
to all services.
Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE
Perry
Sabbath School, 10:15 a. m.
Preaching Service, 11:30 a. rn.
Clinchfield
Sabbath School, 3:00 p. ni.
Preaching Service, 8:30 p. rn.
The public is cordially invited
to all these services.
Rev. M. D. Agerton, Pastor.
NOTICE
Voters must qualify by Noot
(12 o’clock) C. W. T., Oct. 30,
1943 in order to vote in the Coun
ty Democratic Primary Election
of Dec. 2, 1943. Candidates must
also qualify by Noon (12 o’clock)
C. W. T., Oct. 30, 1943 with J.
W. Bloodworth, Secty.
Democratic Executive Com
mittee Houston County,
Georgia.
COTTON REPORT
Census report shows that 2,457
! bales of cotton were ginned in
! Houston county from the crop of
1 1943 prior to Oct. 18, as compar
ed with 3,563 hales for the crop
of 1942.
ESTABLISHED 1870
’44 FARM WAR GOALS
ACCEPTED BY STATE
Georgia farm leaders, meeting
in Athens to discuss 1944 goals
for production of essential war
crops, have accepted the goals
suggested by the Government,
with some changes, L. W.Tabor,
chairman of the Houston County
USDA War Board, reported this
week.
Farmers in this state are urged
to produce a little more corn,and
about one-fourth more oats and
wheat than in 1943, Mr. Tabor
pointed out. He said there is
still time to seed part of the
grain crop this fall here in Hous
ton county.
An increase of 100.000 acres in
peanuts was recommended by the
group and this represents about
a 9 percent increase over this
year’s production in the state.
A reduction of 5 percent in cot
ton acreage was recommended
along with a 10 percent increase
in acreage of tobacco.
The acreage of Irish potatoes
is scheduled to remain about the
same, while the goals call for 12
percent more sweet potatoes.
With livestock, the limited feed
supply and labor is the big prob
lem, the War Board chairman
continued. Goals recommended
are about one percent more milk,
the same number of sheep,
slightly fewer beef cattle, and a
few more eggs. It is also rec
ommended that broiler produc
tion be cut 20 percent because of
the serious shortage of feed.
The recommendations also call
for 5 percent fewer hogs. It was
pointed out that farmers are pro
ducing a few more hogs next
spring, but because of the tight
feed situation the 1944 fall pig
crop will be cut about 12 per
cent.
Mr. Tabor added an encourag
ing note to the production pic
ture, pointing out that there will
be about twice as much farm ma
chinery produced next year as
we had this year, and there will
be 10 to 12 percent more chemi
cal fertilizers available.
MERIT SYSTEM EXAMS
ATLANTA, Ga, --A numberof
positions in State Service, offer
ing opportunity for advancement
with the State Department of
Labor, Public Health, Public
Welfare, and the United States
Employment Service for Georgia,
are to be filled by examinations
which will be given in the near
future by the State Merit Sys
tem, announces Edwin L. Swain,
Director of the State Merit Sys
tem.
• Examinations will cover posi
tions for clerks, typists, stenog
raphers, business machine op
erators, interviewers, county
welfare workres, and county
welfare directors, with salaries
ranging from $7O to over $2OO.
Mr. Swain urges that all quali
fied residents apply for admis
sion to the examinations and
gain a place on the job register,
whether they are now employed
or not.
Applications for examinations
may be secured at your local
county Health or Welfare De
partment, or at the nearest of
fice of the United States Em
jployment Service, or by writing
the State Highway Building, At
lanta 3, Georgia. Applications
must be returned to the Merit
System Oifice by Nov. 18, 1943.
The overall revenue collections
jof the State of Georgia during
j uie ihcml year ended with June
I were <pye,.j14,254 13, a decrease
| n *1,7 m. 135 compared with the
j previous i.scal year, but $4,905,-
I Hi in ire than for the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1941, the audi-
I tor’s report showed. State Audi
| tor B. E. Thrasher Jr., in his re
j port suggested legislative chang
es in the revenue gathering sys
j terns so outside agencies would
cease to get more in fees than it
costs to operate the State De
partment of Revenue.
The state collected $4,704,587
from property, intangibles and
poll taxes during the last fiscal
year and has $1,097,049 still due
from county tax collectors, the
state auditor's report disclosed.
