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No. ■ PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1943 ESTABLISHED 1870
COUNTY PRIMARY TO
BE HELD THURS.DEC.2
S.W.Hickson and F.M.Greene |
Candidates for School Supt.
The Houston County Democra
tic Primary will be held next
Thursday, Dec. 2. County of- 1
fleers will be elected for a four '
vear term which begins Jan. 1, '
1945. The county officers have
one irmre year to serve of their
term which expires Dec. 31,1944.
There is opposition for only '
one office, that of County School
Superintendent. The incumbent. ,
F. M. Greene, is opposed by S. ,
\V. Hickson, a former superin- ,
tendent. These candidates for
county school superintendent are *
printed first on the ballots to be
voted in next Thursday’s elec- 1
tion.
Polls To Close At 7 P. M. (
Polls will open at 9 a. m. and :
close at 7 p. m., Dec. 2, in every
precinct in Houston county. The i
closing time has been extended
from 6 p. m. to 7 p. m. by the i
County Democratic Executive
committee, in order to accommo- i
date workers who could not vote
before six o’clock. The sub-com
miuee making this change i
is composed of J. P.
Etheridge, chmn. county com
inittpp: .1 w, Bloodworth. secre
tary: and Warren B. Hodge,
iiie executive committeemen
in each district will be in charge ;
of the election in their districts.
Australian Ballot System
The Australian Ballot System
of voting will be used in this
election.
The Australian system differs 1
from the system used in the past 1
in many respects. Every ballot \
is numbered and must be ac f
counted for by election manag-|J
ers. No voter is allowed to take :
a ballot from the place of voting, j •
Each voter must enter a vot
ing oooth at tne polls after se
curing an official ballot from the ■
managers. Only one person at a
time is allowed in a voting booth.
The voter marks out names for
which he does not vote, as in
other systems of voting, and (
leaves the name of the person ,
for whom he desires to vote. (
If a voter spoils a ballot, he ;
must not tear it up but return it j
and get another official ballot be
fore voting. No voter is allowed (
to assist another voter in prepar- .
mg his ballot. j
Managers only are permitted
to assist in the preparation of a
ballot and then only in the case
where a person is unable to pre- j ;
Pf’" ballot because of physical •
disability or inability to read the ;
English language. Voter must .
taKe oath to this effect before re- <
ceiving help from managers.Two
managers must be present, one
to assist in marking the ballot ,
and one to witness same. (
If a voter decides not to vote! (
after entering polling place, he ,
must give up official ballot given
him by managers and in no in
stance is he allowed to take of
ficial ballot from polls.
Electioneering at the polls is
Prohibited by law. No person is
allowed to be within ten feet of
the voting booth except the vot
er who is in the act of voting,
dust as soon as a person has vot
ed he ffiust retire from the poll
ing place.
Viuiauon of any of these rules
is a misdemeanor punishable by
law as precribed in Section 1065
of the Penal Code of 1910. Offici
al instructions to voters will be
Posted in each voting booth and
near polling places.
, Election papers, booths, and
instructions will be delivered to
managers the first part of next
Week by J, VV. B[ood worth, secty.
Executive committee.
. There are 1,100 qualified voters
>n the county.
C.H. THOMPSON DIES
Chas. H. Thompson who died i
fuesday a. m. in Cartersville, I
Y a - was buried in Perry Wednes-j
% p.m. Funeral services were,
•mid at 3:30 p. m. in the chapel
m Watson and Whipple Funeral
dome,
.Mr. Thompson is survived byi
dis wife who was Miss Nettie
mffith of Perry and a brother,
dco. Thompson, of Atlanta. i
AAA COMMITTEEMEN
TO BE ELECTED DEC. 10
AAA community committee-1
men for Houston county will be I
elected on Friday, Dec. 10, to I
serve from January, 1 1944 thru!
December 31, 1944, according to
L. W. Tabor, county AAA chair
man.
In addition to the community
committeemen, delegates to a
county convention will be elect
ed. The county committee will
be^ selected at this convention.
How well the Food Program
in this county is run next year
depends to a large extent on the
farmers who are elected to hold I
these committeemen jobs,” Mr.
Tabor said. He continued: ‘‘The
Triple-A committee in this coun
ty will handle the rationing and
allocation of farm machinery,
equipment, building supplies,and
other agricultural materials and
facilities. It will issue farm
livestock slaughter permits, han
dle the farm transportation pro
gram, including recommenda-j
tions for the issuance of certifi
cates for tires, off-highway gaso
line and tractor fuel. These are
only a few of the many impor
tant wartime jobs which the
committee will handle in this!
county.
“Many of the farmers who be-j
come Triple A committeemen
must do so at a personal sacrifice, i
But the soldiers in Italy and in ,
the South Pacific, and on all oth- ;
er battlefronts of the world, are
making greater personal sacri-|
fices. Their personal affairs
have been pushed into the back-i
ground by world affairs.”
Anyone is eligible to vote in'
the committeemen elections who 1
is participating in (a) the agri-i
cultural conservation programs 1
under the allotment, soil con-|
serving, conservation materials
and services, potato or truck crop
provisions: (b) Federal Crop In-'
surance Program; (c) Sugar;
Program.
PERRY MERCHANTS
PREPARED FOR XMAS
The stores in Perry will not be
closed for the usual half-holiday
on Wednesday during the month
of December. The stores will
remain open in order to accom
modate Christmas shoppers.
The stores are already taking
on a festive air for the holiday
season. Christmas toys and gifts
are already on display in show
windows and in stores. A large
variety of gifts is being off«red.
Shop in Perry and avoid the
rush of cities. Many useful and
attractive gifts are to be found
here. Save youself a lot of ‘‘wear
and tear” as well as money by
shopping at home.
The Post Office department
has urged early shopping and
early mailing in order to assure
delivery on time. Out-of-town
cards should be mailed by De
cember 10.
FARM BUREAU MEETS
Those from Houston county at
tending the recent meeting of
the Ga. Farm Bureau in Macon 1
were: Floyd H. Tabor, state
vice-president; Paschal Muse,
president Houston county chap
ter: W. T. Middlebrooks, county
agent; J. C Ward, J. T. Cau-|
thon, Eugene Langston, and W.
E. Vinson Jr.
Mr. Tabor was re-elected vice
president and Mr. Muse was
elected as one of the ten direc
tors. Mr, Muse will represent
District 3on the board of Di
rectors.
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CARD OF THANKS
The family of Miss Agnes Leej
deeply appreciates the man yj
kind expressions of sympathy |
during their recent sorrow,
CARD OF THANKS
The family of Mrs. C. A.Thur
mond appreciates the kindnesses
shown them in their recent sor
row'.
— i
Get 54 for S 3 out of your
CHRISTMAS savings in- g|p|
vest in WAR BONDS. Keep jjjl
on BACKING THE ATTACK.
VICTORY PULPWOOD
DRIVE UNDERWAY
j The next few weeks will see
the success or failure of the Vic- '
jtory Pulpwood Campaign for
1943 and determine whether our
boys on the fighting fronts are
to get everything they need to
carry on their attack against the
Axis, F. C. Gragg, of the Inter
national Paper Company, Pana I
ma City, Fla*, said this week.
‘‘We have only a short time to
reach the 13,000,00-cord goal
which the War Production Board
has set as the minimum needs
for the Army, Navy, and other
military services and essential
civilian industries,” Mr. Gragg
said.
“This pulpwood pro d u c i n g
area has done a fine job in the
last three months, but it has a
bigger job ahead if we are to
meet the minimum 1943 require
ments estimated by the War Pro
duction Board,
“The drive to Cut-a-Cord of
! Pulpwood for Every Local Boy in
Service should produce enough
pulpwood to overcome the threat
ened shortage providing every
area reaches its quota of extra
| cords.
j “The pulpwood supply in the
! United States has reached the
| critical stage and can be increas
j ed only by greater efforts of the
I home army,” Mr, Gragg said.
| “Pulpwood has become an in
valuable material of war, replac
ing thousands of tons of scarce
materials, and it is our patriotic
duty now to get more trees out
j of the w'oods and into the fight.
“Pulpwood plays an important
part in the daily life of our fight
ing men. An idle tree on a farm
: woodlot can be converted quickly
into gunpowder for our troops on
land and sea, intogas mask filt
ers, into containers for first-aid
, kits and K-rations, into paper
parachutes for emergency sup
plies, and a hundred other neces
sary pieces of war equipment.
‘‘Surgical dressings are now
made of pulpwood, life-saving
blood plasma is wrapped in it,
finished product dried foods are
j safely packaged in paper bags,
land countless tons of supplies
1 have been dragged ashore by our
invasion armies in water-proofed
paper V-boxes.
“During recent months pulp
wood has saved thousands of tons
of steel, aluminum, zinc and tin.
It has proven an excellent sub
stitute for rubber, cotton, bur
lap and other commodities. More
than 50,000,000 pounds of twine
and rope have been made of
pulpwood and as much more
pulpwood has probably gone into
protective cases for shells and
bombs.
“One pulpwood tree will make
powder for 7,500 bullets for a
Garand rifle, 35 shells for a 105
mm. naval or land gun, or two
shells for one of the big guns of
the now famous battleship South
Dakota. One tree will also pro
vide the material for 67 paper
vests tor our high altitude avia
tors, 137 hospital waddings for a
field hospital or 122 paper (sup
ply) parachutes for isolated
troops in the field.
“Our farmers have worked
hard and loyally since Pearl
1 Harbor providing food for our
fighting men. It is just as neces
sary to carry on now to produce
the materials which make the V
boxes in which the food is pack
ed and shipped. Pulpwood is
now converted into hundreds of
war materials —smokeless gun
powder, supply parachutes, sur
gical dressings, shell containers
and many other items needed to
carry on successful warfare.”
Pulpwood products are also
necessary in essential civilian oc
cupations, Mr. Gragg said. With
i the increased shortage of lum
j ber, paper and paperboard have
| been used successfully in the
j manufacture of egg crates, fruit
j boxes, poultry feeders, and
i brooders. Paper has also proved
| an excellent substituteffior manil
la, jute and hemp in the manu
facture of twine and rope.
The g-overnment has recogniz
ed the farmer as the principal
hope of increased pulpwood pro
duction indicated by the fact that
the War Manpower Commission
! has declared pulpwood cutting an
essential occupation and has ad
vised local Selective Service
Boards to credit farmers for
time spent at that work. The I
Office of Price Administration!
, has advised pulpwood producers j
MEAT CURING TIPS
OFFERED BY AGENT
Since many families will be
curing meat for the first time
this winter, County Agent W. T.
Middlebrooks this week offered
several suggestions on caring for
meat in order that it come thru
the cure safely and be a got d
quality product.
j Fat hogs weighing between
180 and 240 pounds make the
most desirable meat for curing,
he declared. Hogs bleed more
thoroughly if kept off feed for 18
to 24 hours before killing. “Kill
the hog in the afternoon on a
day when you know the tem
perature will be close to freezing
that night to allow the carcass to
chill out over night. Cutting
warm meat detracts from its ap
pearance, flavor, an d keeping
qualities. At killing time the
hog should be scalded in water
that is 150 degrees Farenheit,”
Mr. Middlebrooks declared.
“After the carcass is chilled,
hams, shoulders, and sides are
cut out for curing. They should
be trimmed neatly and smoothly.
Then apply the curing mixture.
The sugar cure excels the salt
cure, because it gives a finished
product better flavor. The stand
ard receipt for sugar curing is
eight pounds of salt, two pounds
of brown sugar, and two ounces
of saltpeter for each 100 pounds
of meat. The salt cures the
meat, the sugar improves the
flavor and mellowness, and the
saltpeter develops the attractive
red color.
“Kub one-third of the curing
mixture into the meat every two
'days. Pack in a box with skin
side down. Keep the meat in a
cool, dry place during the cure.
The hams and shoulders stay in
the cure two days per pound per
piece. Bacon is cured in I,G days
per pound per piece.”
The agent advised washing the
meat and hanging it in the
smoke house at the end of the
curing period. After it is dry, it
should be smoked with hard
wood, either hickory, or oak, for
20 to 30 hours. The side meat
should be smoked from 12 to 15
hours.
“After meat is stnoked, hang
it in a large box or barrel and
cover the top of the box or bar
rel with a muslin cloth. Do not
let pieces of meat touch. The
meat is protected from the flies
with this method, and it will not
mold, because it has air coming
tnrougn the muslin cloth,” he
said.
Complete instructions on kill
ing, curing and storing meat can
be obtained from the county
'agent, or from the Agricultural
Extension Service in Athens.
MRS. ELIZA S. DIXON
DIES AT WELLSTON
Mrs. Elizabeth Snipes Dixon,
84, died at her residence at
Wellston, at 3a. m. Sunday, af
ter a long illness.
Mrs. Dixon, the widow of Au
gustus Lafayette Dixon, was born
in Houston county, the daughter
of William Robert Snipes and
Mrs. Frances Ann Gatlin Snipes,
and had made her home there
all of her life. She was a mem
ber of the Bonaire Methodist
church,
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
W. C. Watson Sr., Wellston; a
brother, W. R. Snipes, Macon:
a half brother, Robert Rogers,
Macon; four grandchildren, W.
C. Watson Jr., Macon; Mrs. D.
C. Bateman, Walden: Dixon
Watson, Cartersville; Misses
Laura and Mildred Watson,
Wellston: three great-grandchil
dren, Oliver C. Bateman, U. S.
Army, Greenville, Miss.; Walter
C. Watson, 111, and Betty Wat
son, Macon.
Funeral services were held in
the chapel of Hart’s mortuary at
11 a. m. Monday. Th e Rev.
Charles A. Britton Jr. officiated
and burial was in Perry, Ga.
Pallbearers were Dewey Bate
man, W. C. Watson Jr,, Dixon
Watson, Hubert Watson, John
MiHer Jr., and Herman Watson.
Lost—Ration Book No. 3 with
jname, Bertha Lee Stripling.
1 Finder return to Rationing Of
jfice, Perry, Ga.
1 who need extra gas, tires and
I trucks to tell their local ration
ling boards they are cutting pulp
| wood.
WITH THE HOUSTON
SOIL CONSERVERS,
; By LOUIS SKINNER
Soil Conservation Service
A two day meeting of the Soil
Conservationists of the Middle
Western Ocmulgee River Soil
Conservation District was held
here in Perry last week. The
meeting was conducted by two
of the Zone Technicians from
the Regional Office in Spartan
burg, S. C. There were two
terracing demonstrations held in
the county during the meeting.
One was held on J. D. Duke’s
farm and the other on J, C.
Ward’s. Both farmers are co
operators of the District. Th e
purpose of these terracing de
monstrations was to show the
construction of terraces with
different types of tractor plows.
Well, the AAA program for
1944 has been announced and it
seems that the payments for
Soil Conservation and soil build
ing practices will be somewhat
higher next year than they were
tins year. For instance, the
payment for construction of
standard terraces this year was
75 cents a hundred feet, for next
year the payment will be one
dollar per hundred feet. Other
practices have increased in pro
portion.
It has been estimated that
Houston county has planted
around 16,000 acres in winter
cover crops this fall. This is
around 16 percent of the total
cultivated acres in the county.
Maybe we can reach a goal of 25
percent next fall.
Twenty pounds of La d i n o
clover seed were sown last week
on S. A. Nunn’s farm.
UNITED WAR FUND
IS OVERSUBSCRIBED
Houston county has over-sub
scribed its United War Fund
quota by 70%. $2,357.52 has
been contributed and four com
munities are yet to report.
C. P. Gray, county chairman,
hopes to raise this oversubscrip
tion to 80% by Dec. 1, in order
to lead the state of Georgia in
this respect. Two other counties
have raised 75% more than their
quotas.
Tne latest contribution was
made Saturday by the colored
schools of the county. Supervisor
Helen Martin turned in $45.20
from the colored schools with
the following individual contri
butions:
Mt. Nebo, $2; Piney .Grove,
$10; King s Chapel, $4; Jerusa
lem, $1.70; Henderson, $2; El
Derta $2.25; G ■•eon Grove, $2;
Mt. Olive, $5: Mt. Zion 10. $1;
Mt. Zion 14, s.}; Gruvania, $2.50;
Piney Wood, 50; Davis Hill,
$1; Mclnnis, $1; Davis Chapel,
$2,50; Elko. s2;ilayneville, $1.75,
Total $45.20.
R. L. THOMPSON DIES
Funeral services for Robert
Lee Thompson Sr., 79, who died
Monday night at too home of hisj
daughter, Mrs. H '). Wilder,
Fort Valley, were held Wednes
; day at 3p. m. at the chapel of
McCord and Co., Fort Valley.
Rev. J. A. Ivey, pastor of the
Perry Baptist church, assisted by
M. D. Reed, pastor of the Fort
. Valley Baptist church, conducted
; the funeral services. Interment!
was in the Perry cemetery.
Mr. Thompson, who was born
in Houston county, is survived
i by his wife, the former Miss Sa
; rah Ida Etheridge: three daugh
ters, Mrs. A. T. Smith, Miami,
Fla.; Mrs. H. T. Wilder and Mrs, j
J. T, Kemper, Fort Valley; three j
• sons, Harry and Robert Le e\
Thompson Jr., Perry, and Pvl. j
Mack E. Thompson, with the]
i Army Air Corps. He is also sur
. viveci by several grandchildren. [
. Make it a thrifty CIIRIST
-1 Itfl MAS K ‘ ve WAR BONDS
. | Keep on BACKING THE
• j jiff ATTACK,
COUNTY PLANE TO BE
NAMED THE PANTHER
October Bond Sales Purchase
Bomber and 1 2 Planes.
Each county in the 13th War
Bond district of Georgia has been
given the privilege of naming a
fighter plane to go with the
Bomber, "Spirit of Dooly Coun
ty,” named in memory of Lt.
Commander Marcus George, son
of Senator Walter F. George and
Mrs. George, This Bomber was
bought through the purchase of
War Bonds within the ten coun
ties of the 13th district and in
Macon and Tift counties during
the month of October. E. P,
Newhard of Perry is district
chairman.
This October Bond drive spon
sored by Georgia school children
was over subscribed $2,200,000;
therefore each of the counties is
to buy a fighter plane with this
money in addition to the Bomber.
Houston county’s plane is to be
named "The Panther” in honor
of Perry High’s basketball team,
which has won numerous tro
phies in the past.
The November Bond drive is
being sponsored by the American
Legion and the December drive
will be sponsored by the farm
groups.
The fourth War Loan drive
will take place the month of Jan
uary. C. E. Andrew, county
chairman, will direct Houston
county’s sale of bonds.
NEGRO WOMAN BURNS
TO DEATH IN PERRY
Dashing back into heh blazing
home to rescue a child she
thought was still there Annis
Williams, negro woman, was
burned to death in Perry early
Tuesday a. m.
Two houses were burned in a
fire discovered by a newsboy on
his early morning round with
papers. He gave the alarm and
the work of firemen saved a third
house from burning.
The woman escaped from the
blazing house of her daughter,
rushed back into the flames to
get a child which had already
been removed. She was caught
in the Tallin g house and lost her
life.
MARKETING OF HOGS
It is entirely probable that dur
ing December and January, hogs
offered for sale will exceed the
capacity of plants to handle
■ them, L. W. Tabor, Houston
county chairman of the USDA
War Board, said this week, and
it is also provable that transpor
tation facilities may be inade
quate to move all hogs to market
when they are offered for sale.
With the largest pig crop on
record going to market this year,
I orderly marketing is imperative
if we are to avoid a collapse of
marketing, processing, and dis
tribution machinery, according
to Mr, Tabor.
Th e War Board chairman
pointed out that hog farrowings
need to be leveled off in line
with feed supplies to meet the
! needs of the dairy dnd poultry in
dustries. He suggested that
farmers feed hogs to no more
than average weights as a means
of making more efficient use of
available feed supplies.
Mr. Tabor urged that every
j farmer who expects to market
I hogs, make marketing arrange
imerits in advance of shipment,
jandhesaid that since storage
| facilities will be taxed to the ut
most the marketing must be
[spread out over wider than nor
mal periods this year.
| "The help of farmers will be
j needed in maintaining the Gov-
I ernment’s support price of hogs, ”
Mr. Tabor said. "The support
I price is $13.75 for good choice
jhogs weighing 200 to 270 pounds,
[Chicago basis. If hogs are mar
keted faster than packing plants
lean process them, it would be
useless for the Government to
purchase live hogs in an attempt
to hold the price, because the
| only place the Government can
| turn to have them processed will
!be to the already overtaxed
'packing plants.”
