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VOL. LXXIII. No. 3. PERKY. HOUSTON COUNTY GA.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20. 1944 ESTABLISHED 1870
COMMITTEES NAMED
FOR4TH WAR LOAN
The 4th War Loan Drive was
launched in Houston county
Monday night at a meeting of
committee chairmen at the Perry
school, J. P. Etheridge, county
chairman, presided. Dr. W. G.
Lee of Macon was the principal
speaker.
Houston county’s quota for the
4th War Loan Drive, Jan. 18
Feb. 15, is $342,800. However,
all bonds bought during t h e
months of January and February
will count on the quota.
In the 3rd War Loan Drive
held in Sept. 1943, Houston’s
quota was $264,200 and a total of
$390,000 of Bonds was bought.
C. E. Andrew was chairman of
this drive.
Mr. Etheridge announced the
following committees:
COMMUNITY—F. M. Houser,
chmn.; G. C. Nunn, G. F. Nunn,
J. A. Beddingfield, W. E. Beck
nam, A. C. Pritchett, Mayo Da
vis, O. A. King, C.E. McLendon,
Lewis Harper, Rhett Milam.
PUBLICITY Mrs. J. L.
Hodges, L. C. Walker, Rhett Mi
lam, Mrs. W. K. Whippe, Mrs.
J. L. Beavers.
BANKS-C. E. Andrew.
CORPORATIONS S.A.Nunn.
PAYROLL SAVINGS—J. A.
Grubb.
CLINCHFIELD—CeciI Mc-
Craven.
SCHOOLS—E. P. Staples.
WOMEN’S DIVISION—-Mrs.
G. C. Nunn, chmn.
(1) Smoak Subdivision—Mrs.
T. S. Hunt, captain: Mrs. Culma
Harris, lieutenant.
(2) Clinchfield Circle —Mrs. D.
M. Ryle, capt.; Mrs. W. G.Riley,
Mrs. A. C, Watts, lieutenants.
(3) North of Main and East of
Macon Highway—Mrs. J. L. Gal
lemore, captain; Mrs. J. A. Bed
dingfield, Mrs. A. Braddock,
lieuts.
t 4) South of Main, East of
Washington: Mrs. S. A. Nunn,
capt.; Mrs. W. E. Beckham,Mrs.
Mayo Davis, Mrs. W. T. Middle
brooks, lieuts.
(5) South of Main, West of
Washington: Mrs. B. H, An
drew, Jr., captain; Mrs. H, E.
Evans. Jr., Mrs. Allen Fikes,
lieuts.
(6) West of Macon Highway,
North of Commerce: Mrs.W. V.
Tuggle, captain; Mrs. C. E.
Brunson, Mrs. W., K. Whipple,
Mrs. Sam Coleman, lieuts.
Andrew Heights: Mrs. Alton
Hardy, captain; Mr s. D. M.
Stripling, Mrs. B. W. Bozeman,
lietus.
Special Sales Committee: Mrs
E. W. Traylor, Mrs. George Jor
don, Mrs. A. C. Cobb, and Mrs
C. P. Gray.
{A meeting of all Women Ap
pointees will be held Monday,
Jan. 24, 3:30 p. rn. at the home
of Mrs G. C. Nunn.)
RURAL SECTIONS—W. T.
Middlebrooks, chmn.
Centerville: R. F, Scarbor
ough, W. N. Johnson, Fred W.
Carter.
Wellston: Herman Watson,
J. T. Miller, Jr.
Bonaire: H. C, Talton,Claude
Watson, A. L. Jones.
Kathleen: A. R. Talton, L.C.
Watson, S. T. Bryan.
Hayneville: L, M. McCor
mick, V. B. Abrams, G.W.Smith.
Elko: J. E. Eason, Mrs, H. S.
Kezar. J. N, Buff.
MRS. T. C. DIXON DIES
Mrs. Thomas C. Dixon, ageso,
of Chicago, 111. died Thursday,
Jan. 13, in Macon where she had
made her home the past three
months. She had been in ill
health for two years.
Mrs. Dixon was Miss Annie
Pauline King of Perry, daughter
of the late John B. King and
Mattie Shirah King.
Survivors inciude her husband,
and a daughter by a former mar
riage, Miss Laverne Phillips, of
Macon; one brother, O. A. King,
of Perry.
Funeral services were held
Friday in Perry at Watson &
Whipple Funeral Home. Rev.
C. W. Stitt of Warner Rob
ins officiated with Rev. J. A.
Ivey officiating.
Pallbearers were W. W. Boler,
O. G. Boler, S. L. Dixon, Rupert
Dixon,
NOTED BUSINESSMAN |
TO SPEAK HERE JAN. 23[
R. G. LeTourneau, widely!
known industrialist who operates!
his business “in partnership!
with God,” will speak in Perry|
next Sunday, Jan. 23, at 3 p. m. \
at the Methodist church. Ap
pearing with him will be Mrs.
Dorothy M. Strathearn, called
the “gospel nightingale ”
The address of this nationally
known religious lay leader in
Perry has been arranged by the
National and State Evangelistic'
Associations in connection with
the laymen’s Christian education
program now under way,
Mr. LeTourneau, as he puts it,
made God h i s senior partner
many years ago when, facing
bankruptcy, he paid a substantial
pledge for missionary work.
Today Mr. LeTourneau is head
of the R. G. LeTourneau, Inc.,of
Peoria, 111., and Toccoa, Ga.
About 70 per cent of the stock in
the enterprise is owned by the
LeTourneau Foundation, charter
ed to do evangelistic work. Total
assets of the foundation today
are in excess of $10,000,000.
In addition to contribution of
his wealth to religious work, Mr.
LeTourneau devotes a great deal
of his time to the church and its
activities.
Coming here with the indus
trialist will be Mrs. Strathearn
who has been his principal soloist
on a number of his evangelistic
tours. A native of Pennsylvania,
she began her musical career as
a member of a church choir. She
was trained in Rochester, N. Y.,
where she married Dr. Harold
Strathearn, widely-known east
ern evangelist. Five years ago
the singer and her husband be
came connected with the Le-
Tourneau Foundation, and he is;
now director.
The people of Perry and Hous
ton county are invited to hear
Mr. LeTourneau, noted Baptist
layman, speak in Perry next
Sunday, 3 p. m. at Methodist
church.
WITH THE HOUSTON
SOIL CONSERVERS
By LOUIS SKINNER
Soil Conservation Service
H. M. Stubbs, of Wellston,had
plans made for terrace line sur
veying on his farm last week.
A kudzu meadow strip was also
planned to be used as a water
disposal area. Mr. Stubbs is a
cooperator of the Soil Conserva
tion District.
D. W. McGowan applied for
terrace lines on most all of his
farm last week, and plans were
made for both terrace line sur
veying and kudzu meadow strips.
We have received a few appli
cations for kudzu crowns during
the past week, but no where near
the number of orders we had an
ticipated having by this time,
i Let’s take time and get those
orders in immediately, so we will
have some estimate of how many
crowns we will need here in the
county,
T. L. Warren is going to dig
kudzu crowns on his farm and
he expects to begin, the weather
permitting, digging this week.
He should be able to dig suffi
cient crowns to furnish all orders
from this county.
If you intend seeding a pasture
this spring it is time to begin
placing orders for pasture seed
now. This office will be glad to
nelp in any way with pasture im
provement. Remember, your
pasture should be given as much
attention as any acre on your
farm.
,
CARD OF THANKS !
I
We want to thank our friends i
for their kind expressions of
sympathy during our recent be
reavement.
T. C. Dixon
Laverne Phillips
Mr. and Mrs. O. A. King.
BASKETBALL GAME
PERRY HIGH
vs.
LESLIE HIGH
Fri., Dec. 21, 8 P. M.
PERRY COURT
! FOURTH WAR LOAN DRIVE
;By Ruby C Hodges, Pub. Cbmn.
1
j The theme of the 4th War
| Loan Drive is “Let’s All Back
'the Attack.’’ The fundamental
| plea in this drive is buy EXTRA
War Bonds. This goal is sym
bolized by the emblem, carrying
the legend “We bought EXTRA
Bonds.” To be without this em
blem h to default upon our obli-1
gations to our fighting men and
to the nation for which they
fight and die
Nearly everybody in Houston
county can alford to buy bonds
and even extra bonds above his
or her monthly purchases. The
amount of regular income today
far exceeds any previous high
point in history as reflected in
bank deposits. Right here in
Houston county, bank deposits
are three times as great as in
1936. The local bank’s assets
now are over a million dollars as
compared with $336,070.76 in
1936.
Fifty per cent of the families
in the county have two or more
persons gainfully employed.
These are certainly able to buy
extra bonds.
Many individuals whose in
come has not increased apace
with the national level are
nevertheless buying Bonds, regu
larly, by making personal sacri
fices. These patriotic men and
women have set a fine example
for others to follow.
It is not a question of not be
ing able to buy Bonds. We can
not afford not to buy extra Bonds
for our own self-interest is in
volved on these counts:
(1) Failure to invest in Bonds,
and instead using swollen income
to bid for scarce consumer goods,
will result in higher prices. This
will impair value of wages and in
general damage the economic
structure of the nation. Protec
tion of this stability has been en
trusted to the home front by the
men on the fighting front. To
belie the trust is to betray the
men in our armed services.
(2) Failure to assume our
share of each War Loan could, if
multiplied by millions of other
i instances, endanger the orderly
financing and prosecution of the
war, thereby threatening the
military security of the nation
and of the individual.
(3) To pass up the purchase of
War Bonds is to deny ourselves
of the most desirable and safest
investment in the world today.
(4) To deny ourselves that in
vestment today is to miss the op
portunity for guaranteeing the
future security of our family,
our children and our country.
“Let’s All Back the Attack”
by buying War Bonds to the
limit of our ability during this
4th War Loan Drive. In doing
this, let us be mindful that we
are promoting the successful
prosecution of the war, the
economic stability of the nation,
and the attainment of our na
tional and personal post-war
aims.
SOLDIER VOTE BILL
PATTERN FOR NATION
When Georgia became the first
state to enact legislation to fa
cilitate voting by absentee ser
vicemen and women, the state
really started something. Just
as soon as Governor Arnall sign
led the bill, secretaries of state
from numerous states—as far
away as California and as close
as next door Alabama—started
requesting copies of the neWly
passed measure.
“Copies of the bill are being
mailed out as fast as requests
come in,” it was explained at the
! Secretary of State’s office. “In
i Cerest shown has been tremen
jdous. Copies also have been
i mailed to ordinaries, tax collec
tors and registrars of each of
I Georgia’s 159 counties so that
•the voting process is clear to all
concerned in carrying out the
provisions of the bill.”
Much praise has been heaped
on Governor Arnall and the State
Legislature for the speedy en
actment of this all-important
legislation,
i
Girls With Green Eyes
A vote recently taken showed that
65 per cent of the men questioned
preferred girls with green eyes; only
20 per cent cared for blue; 10 per
cent for brown; and but 5 per ctnt
1 for fray eyes.
P. H. S. fICIIPES
Perry High Panthers will play
Leslie High Friday. 8 p. m. in
Berry. These two teams have
met twice this school year; each
team has won a game and both
are anxious to win this one Fri
day. The two teams are coach
ed by brothers and friendship
ceases when the game starts.
I The Perry boys are practicing
hard this week for they have
lost two games and are anxious
to start winning again. The
Perry boys reached their peak
when they defeated Lanier Hi of
Macon and seem not to be able
to get back in shape to play their
best ball.
The Perry A. C. will play the
strong team from Ocilla. The
Ocilla boys have lost only one
game this year and have been
playing the best teams in South
Georgia. Don’t miss these two
games.
MAJOR HUNTER HURST.
MARINE. ACCLAIMED
By Sgt. Charles B. Kopp, Mercer
University Class of 1942, a Ma
rine Corps Combat Corres
pondent.
CAMP LEJEUNE, New River,
N. C. —More Mercer University
alumni sing it than ever before —
“ . . We are proud to claim the
title
Of United States Marine . . .”
And, with the record of their
achievement, the Marine Corps is
proud to claim its Mercerians.
A program of Mercer accom
plishment in the Marine Corps is
Major Edward Hunter Hurst, 26,
of Fort Valley, Ga., and Perry,
Ga., class of 1938.
Major Hurst, who is credited
with having made Mercer “a part
of the Marine Corps,” recently
was transferred from his duties
as commanding officer of the
Marine Women's Officer Candi
dates’ Class here to the Staff and
Command School at Quantico.Va,
This is one of the highest hon
ors to come to Major Hurst since
he was selected for a regular
commission after his graduation
from Mercer. It is regarded as
a step toward action, which he
long ago requested.
Mercer alumni remember the
Major mainly as a spirited guard
on some good Mercer football
teams and as a man who made
the grade without benefit of
nigh school experience. He was
a college president’s epitome of
an ideal athlete, being a scholar
and student leader, too.
With the exception of 1941,
when he brought his Parris Is
land, S. C. Marine basketeers to
Mercer, the most his Georgia
friends know of his whereabouts
was that he was seeing the
world with the Marine Corps.
It was evident back at Mercer,
however, that the Major had
started something. After he had
been chosen as the first Mercer
student to attend the Marine
platoon leaders’ classes, he had
turned his efforts toward helping
enlist his classmates who could
qualify. That was the beginning
of what is now such a long list of
Alercer Marine officers that it
surprises the most informed.
While his endeavors continued
to bear fruit in Macon, the
Major was serving with the Ma
rines at Quantico; Philadelphia,
aboard a warship at Parris Is
land.
Then, early in 1943, the Corps
was looking for an officer to com
mand its women’s officer candi
dates’ class. No one regarded it
as an accident when announce
ment came that a young captain,
at Pensacola, Fla., had been
singled out for the job—that is
no one but Captain Hurst; he
considered it a tragedy, because
he was anticipating duty over
seas.
After nearly a year at this as
signment, however, the Major is
happy that he got it, especially
since he has been ordered to
tough schooling that usually
promises no reward other than
risky adventures.
Major Hurst was the first of
several Mercerians who have be
come Marine Majors. Major
Robert Dillard of Macon, Ga.,
veteran of Guadalcanal, and
Major Roscoe Kline, Bradenton,
Fla., another Bear footballer,
now at the Cherry Point, N. C.
Air Station, attained the rank
(recently.
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
FUND BEING RAISED
January is the month for the
annual Infantile Paralysis Fund
Drive No quotas have been set
for this year but every person
has been requested to give lib
erally to this worthy cause.
Rev. J. A. Ivey has accepted
trie chairmanship for Houston
county for the third consecutive
year. Mr. Ivey has not formed
any organization but is making
personal solicitation for funds.
There were three cases of in
fantile paralysis in Houston
county last year. These received
- benefit from the Paralysis Fund
raised in 1943 and‘previous years.
Fifty per cent of the fund re
mains in the county for use here
and 50% goes to the National
Foundation to finance research
into the cause, cure and preven
tion of this dreaded disease.
“Fight Infantile Paralysis for
our Children’s Sake” is the slo
gan for the 1944 drive.
Please hand or mail your con
tribution to Rev. J. A. Ivey, Per
ry, Ga. sometime during Jan
uary.
RATIONING REMINDERS
More points available for school
lunch programs, slightly higher
prices for foods packed in glass,
slightly higher ceilings on rayon
hose, and certain releases on old
stock rationed shoes for women
were included in releases from
OPA information service this
week.
Retail shoe dealers (not mail
order or chain warehouse ac
counts) who have filed a Sept. 30
inventory, may sell up to 15 per
cent of the amount of women’s
shoes they had in stock on that
date as shown on line 4 of that
inventory, ration free, subject to
the following conditions:
Date of sale is Jan. 17 to 29 in
clusive. Shoes released under
this amendment may not be sold
for more than $3 a pair. If ceil
ing price is less than $3, shoes
may not be marked above ceil
ing price. Any notice or adver
tising must refer to the shoes as
“OPA Release Women’s Low
Price Shoes.” A record of num
ber of pairs released must be at
tached to the April 10 inventory.
Stores that have not filed a
Sept. 30 inventory return with
OPA may not release any shoes,
but should communicate with
OPA at once.
OPA has made a new plan for
increasing allotments of rationed
foods for schools which want ti
expand operations. More schools
are no w serving substantial
lunches and managers need more
points for rationed foods. Schools
may apply now at the local ra
tion board to get additional food
for January and February
lunches.
Forty-five guage plain knit ray
on stocking, formerly ceiling
priced at 92 cents, may now sell
for 96c, officials said. But toj.
legal prices for certain types ot
mesh and lace hosiery have been
reduced. The top legal selling
price is shown on the tag or
marker inserted in or attached to
the stocking'-.
Foods packed in glass may
cost slightly more if the packers
have started using glass since
1941. Packers who customarily
packaged fruits and vegetables
in glass are not affected, since l
their ceilings are already scaled
to cover that cost.
Sugar
Sugar Stamp No. 30 in Book 4
became valid on Jan. 16 and
will be good for five pounds thru
March 31.
Gasoline
No, 8 coupons in “A” books!
expire Feb. 8. j
Shoes
Stamp No. 18 valid for one pair i
of shoes for indefinite period, j
Stamp lon “airplane” sheet in
Book 3 valid for one pair Nov. l!
Meats and Fats
Brown Stamps R and S (Book!
3) valid through January 29.
Processed Foods
Green D, E, F, Stamps (Bookl
4) expire Jan. 20. Green, G, H,
J, become valid Jan. 1 and ex
pire Feb. 20.
While stationed at Pensacola,
Major Hurst was married to the
former Emma Randolph Elebash,
903 North Barcelona St, Pensa
cola. They have a young daugh
ter, Ann Randolph Hurst.
'production goals
TORE TOLD FARMERS
An educational campaign to
reach into every Houston county
community to acquaint farmers
with production goals for 1944
and means of reaching these
, goals is now being developed by
the Agricultural Extension Ser
. vice in cooperation with other
farm agencies.
Twelve meetings were held
this week in different parts of
the state to train county workers
in presenting the 1944 farm sit
uation and problems and produc
. tion goals to farmers in their
counties. County Agent VV. T.
Middlehrooks said this week.
The War Food Administration
and the Department of Agricul
ture have given the Extension
Service the responsibility of ac
quainting farmers with the 1944
farm program, Mr. Middlehrooks
pointed out.
A county-wide and community
, meetings will be held in this
county. Information to be car
ried to farmers includes the 1944
demand for farm products, the
state war goals, price supports,
credits, and marketing facilities,
the materials and supplies situa*
1 tion, and production, conserva
• tion and wise use of the family’s
food supply in the war effort,
i Taking part in the district,
county and community meetings
i will be representatives from the
i Agricultural Adjustment Agency,
i Soil Conservation Service, Farm
Security Administration, Farm
1 Credit Administration, Forest
■ Service, Rural Electrification Ad-
I ministration, Georgia Crop Re
porting Service, Food Distribu
tion Administration, vocational
education division of the State
, Department of Education, and
i the Extension Service, County
Agent Middlehrooks continued.
"Houston county farm fami
lies did a magnificent job in 1943,
despite many handicaps,” Mr.
Middlehrooks declared. ‘Tndi
i cations are that they will con
tinue to give the war effort their
main attention and best work,
i and these agricultural agencies
stand ready to help them in
whatever way possible with
problems whenever they come
up.”
. Production goals for Georgia
during 1944 call for larger acre
ages of practically all principal
food crops and for an increase in
the production of dairy, poultry
and certain types of other live
stock products. Due to the acute
feed situation the goals call for
a2O percent reduction in ths
number of broilers and a 13 per
cent reduction in the number of
turkeys as compared with 1943,
(The state goals call for a 4 per
-cent increase in the number of
sows to farrow in the spring of
1944 and a 12 percent decrease in
the number to farrow in the fall
of 1944.
CARD OF THANKS
i As we announce to the public
] the sale of our business, known
and operated as Nick’s Cafe, to
E. W. Marshall of Perry, we
want to thank all our friends of
Perry and Houston county for
their patronage during the past
seventeen years.
We have sold the cafe business
to devote our time to our farm
ing interests in this county and
will continue to make our home
in Perry.
Miss Pauline McLendon who
assisted in tne operation of
Nick’s Cafe for the past 16 years
1 joins Mrs. Cabero and myself in
j expressing appreciation for your
| friendship.
Freeman Cabero.
I METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
I Church Services, 11:30 a. m.,
(and 7:30 p. m.
Church School—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,
1 7:30 p, m.
Training Union, 6;30 p. m.
; Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor.
