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VOL. LXXIII. No. 9. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 2. 1944 ESTABLISHED 1870
FAT CALF SHOW TO
BE HELD HERE MCH.4
Eight F. F. A. boys will enter
fourteen calves in the sixth an
nual Fat Calf Show of Houston
county, to be held this Saturday,
March 4, in Perry. The Perry
Kiwanis club sponsors this Calf
Show every year. Winning en
tries in this county show will be
carried to the Macon Cattle Show
to be held March 6—7.
In addition to the entries of
Future Farmers of America, the
colored boys’ and girls’ 4 H
group will have five entries in
the show.
The F. F. A. boys and their
entries are as follows: Jack
Eason, owner of the 1942 grand
champion in both the county ahd
Macon shows, one Black Angus;
Eugene Pyles, owner of the 1943
reserve champion of the county
show and of the grand and re
serve champions of the 1943 Ma
con show, three Black Angus
calves: Richard Ogletree, owner
of the grand champion of 1943
county show and second prize
winner of F. F. A. in Macon
show, three calves; 1 Hereford, j
1 Black Angus, and 1 grade
Hereford.
Charles Hicks,one grade Here
ford; Billy Gray, 1 Hereford and
1 Black Angus; Virgil Cosey, 2
Hereford; Billy Giles, 1 Black
Angus; Frank Giles, 1 Black
Angus.
These calves were bought from
E. B. Weatherly of Cochran, S.
A. Nunn and W. W. Gray of
Perry; R. S. Anderson of Haw
kinsville except three which were
raised at home.
Prizes Offered by Club
The Kiwanis club will award
prizes in two classes, Heavy
weight and Lightweight as fol
lows, first prize $l5, (2) $l2,
(3) $lO, (4) $7. The grand
champion owner will be given
$lO in addition to class prize, and'
the reserve champion owner $5
extra. Each boy exhibiting a
calf and not winning a prize will
be given $5.
The colored 4 H boys and girls
entering calves will be offered
prizes, also, as follows: Ist,slo;
2nd, $7; 3rd, $5; 4th, $3.
SWEET POTATO SEED
IMPOR TANT TO YIELD
Urging Houston county farm
ers to select seed from a source
known to be high-yielding and
disease-free, County Agent W.
T. Middlebrooks this week point
ed out that good yields of mar
ketable sweet potatoes depend
largely on selecting the best
available seed.
One of the best ways to get
disease-free seed, he pointed out,
is to buy certified seed or plants.
Seed potatoes should be treated
with a corrosive sublimate solu
tion.
In order to further prevent
disease, commercial sweet potato
growers should save only vine
grown potatoes, Mr. Middle
brooks declared. By using only
vine cuttings to set the commer
cial crop, most of the disease, if
any, can be left in the mother
potato.
The Extension Service agent
urged farmers and commercial
growers to select a variety that
will give high-yielding, uniform
potatoes that will be readily
marketable.
“By far the best seller on any
market is the Louisiana type
Porto Rican, or copperskin,sweet
potato,” he continued. “It is a
high-yielding, early-maturing po
tato that is high in sugar and
moisture content. It is copper
skinned with a salmon or orange
inside color.”
In order to use vine cuttings to
plant the commercial crop, Mr.
Middlebrooks said, it will be
necessary to bed about ten bush
els of seed for each 5 acres to be
planted. This will give draws to
set one acre for a mother patch
from which vine cuttings can be
taken to set the five acres.
METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
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.
PERRY WINS “B” BALL
tournament Monday;
i
Perry High defeated Fort Val-j
ley Monday night 26 —15 in thej
finals of the class B, 3rd District!
Basketball Tournament. Thej
game was played on the Perry'
court before the largest crowd!
ever assembled there. The at-|
tendance was 1,000. State and]
district school officials were pres
ent and a number of Fort Valley;
people as well as local fans.
The Perry Panthers played a I
superb defensive game with
Walter Skellie starring as high!
point man, registering 10 tallies. I
The winners held Fort Valley to
only one field goal in the first
half.
Perry will play in the state
tournament in Macon which be
gins next Wednesday, March 8.
Thursday night (March 2)
Perry will play Leslie, winner of
the C tournament in the third
district. The game will be at 8
p. m. on the Perry Court.
There is a great rivalry be
tween Perry and Leslie and each
team has won two games over
the other during this season.
Another interesting fact is that
j these teams are coached by
brothers, Eric P. Staples and
Donald Staples. Supt. Staples of
Perry High coached his younger
brother, Donald, now principal
of the Leslie school.
The game to-night (Thurs.)
between these two teams should
be good.
WITH THE HOUSTON
SOIL CONSERVERS
By LOUIS SKINNER
Soil Conservation Service
Greer Hicks, a district co
operator, is digging kudz u
crowns for sale here in the
county. The weather has been
so bad recently that it has been
j impossible to get the crowns dug
as rapidly as we had hoped to.
We have placed an order for
some crowns to be shipped into
Perry this week. We are trying
to fill all orders for kudzu as
rapidly as we possibly can.
Eugene Beckham has com
pleted clearing his site for his
fish pond. It is certainly a nat
ural location for a farm pond.
Mayo Davis and Houser Gil
bert, co-operators of the soil con
servation district, had their farm
pond sites surveyed last week.
It is hoped that clearing of the
site and construction of the dam
can be begun in the very near
future.
Surveying of terrace lines was
begun last week on the Southern
Fruit Distributors farms.
It is certainly encouraging to
see so many farmers interested
in planting lespedeza this spring.
This crop has surely proved that
it is one of the best summer
temporary grazing crops, and
also a very valuable crop for hay.
;In addition to this it can be
worked in nicely as a soil builder
for our row crops. Lespedeza
excells especially in a cotton ro
tation. Ask the man who has
tried lespedeza what he thinks
about it,
PERRY F.F.A. MEMBERS
RECEIVE DIST. HONORS
Richard Ogletree and Jack Ea
son, two members of the Perry F.
F. A. chapter have received cash
prizes and a free trip to Atlanta
for outstanding Future Farmer
‘ work.
Richard Ogletree won Ist place
in this District, a prize of $25.00,
and Jack Eason won 3rd place, a
: prize of $20.00 in a Food For
Victory achievement contest.
' In 1943, Richard carried out a
project of 2 beef calves, 2 acres
; of peanuts, 2 acres of corn and a
gilt. He made a profit of $471.10
! on these enterprises. With his
*; calves he won county champion
ship and won 3rd prize in county
: I corn contest. He is vice-presi
ident of local chapter at present.
In 1943, Jack Eason carried
11 out a project of 4 acres corn, 100
head chickens, 1 beef animal, 3
acres potatees, 5 acres of pea
, nuts and 11 head of hogs. He
made a profit cf $913.54 on these
enterprises. He won 2nd place
) in the county corn contest. He
is now president of the F. F. A.
chapter..
| LIFE IN NEW GUINEA SEEN BY PERRY BOY
I
j '
i By PVT. WATT RAINEY
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUI
[NEA, Jan. 16, 1944 —Life in its
(beginning—l have seen it.
j Today I did one of the things
' there is to do on this equatorial
I island: I visited a native village,
j There I saw men, women and
j children in various states of dis-
I hahille living in grass huts
weather-proofed atop 10 foot
poles.
I No engineer-planned town
.was this one, with paved
!thoroughfares and marketplace,
(but a congregation of simple
huts lined up, in their sand foot
ing, generally in two main rows
that gave way here and there to
a towering coconut palm, which
of course came first and, display
ing aloft a big cluster of milk
heavy fruit was as important as
a family cow.
Fork and poultry produce came
from no meat market. It was
breathing in the sand below the
dwelling.
Black of course were the mem
-1 hers of the little seaside colony,
typical short-statured and with
flat-type noses.
j We made the excursion in a
jeep with three mates and found
the grown-ups taking life leisure
■ ly, some of them sitting on their
1 shaded, elevated porches, others
lying stretched out in the cool,
dark interiors of their window
. less houses. It was Sunday and
the Christianized colored folks
were observing the sabbath.
Sunday or no, the youngest
were out in numbers, having no
■ mind for rest. They met us.
In all, we were more than a score
of Yanks and Aussies who had
identical plans for the day, as we
landed from the native ferry
man’s outrigged canoes that car
■ ried us across a deep cove to the
1 colony’s peninsular site. They
J swarmed around us, begging
1 pence, as we made our way up
1 the beach to the village.
: “Freni, six-p’nce please,
• frienl,” they kept chattering as
r we proceeded into town. They
1 were thick as flies and as hard to
< get rid of.
5 In the village a few of the
grown-ups were quick as ghetto
■ dealers to pick up the cue from
3 the children. Here was a tourist
■ party of soldiers that included
“Merican” and Mericans are
• gude. That is, Americans, bet
• ter paid, are usually flush and
1 part with their cash more readily
than the Australians.
: They stood on their porches,
1 and, their wares in their hands,
called down at us:
“Boats! Boats!’’ The boats
3 were model of the husky outrig
-1 ger canoes they themselves used.
“Beads! Beads!” —W h i c h
> were mostly tiny seashells strung
I into neckless.
But for these small-scale com
mercia) activities the village per
’ sisted in its holiday relaxation.
I Most of the adults simply sat on
their porches and watched us
: curious tourists walking up and
down their one way street, our
1 heads tilted up like first day
• country gentry in New York.
3 A family at street-end became
3 our model when I called up at a
young man sitting cross-legged
on the porch and he rose and re
plied in good English. He was
employed by the Australians at
; the military post and was spend
ing the day in the village visit
ing his relatives.
His skin an attractive golden
brown with none of the blemish
es and scaliness marking many
of the villagers, he was a sight
, to see, a mild-eyed athletic type
with nicely-rounded bands, of the
muscles. With taste for color,
he was wearing a three-quarter
length wool skirt of navy blue
; j that rhymed with his toast-brown
(complexion.
1 Only perceptible blemish to his
;j otherwise perfect exterior was a
’j fresh tattoo wound. All the na
jltivesare self-tatooing experts.
, j Clotting blood was standing high
5 j above the arm wound, indicating
’j what would be two overlapping
j hearts, an arrow impaling one on
! the center.
I i As I stood half way up the
‘ front porch ladder, he, spokes
, man for the family by virtue of
’I his good English, told me first
Fabout the heavily-wrinkled old
; man squatting on the doorway.
; He was 40, not 70. He was only
; apparently aged because “the
'.kin soft and he blind.”
Silhouetted against the door
way at the other side of the'
room, I could see into the house
from my ladder vantage point,
was another mother and she was
“yes. rockabying baby.” From
a rafter, by a long rope, was
suspended a little mesh sack, just
clearing the floor. In the sack
was the child which the mother,
'sitting on the floor, swung to
and fro with gentle pushes. The
swing was brief, like the swing
of a pendulum of a grandfather’s
clock.
Those pictures hanging on the
beam just out side the door?
Well, they were “pictures of my
relatives” taken before the war
“when photographers come to
village.”
My host went inside and got
them, then described them in de
tail. One was a group wedding
picture, the other a photo of four
young misses of the family in
their Girl Guide (comparable to
Girl Scout) uniforms. It was
odd seeing those bony faces
sticking out of a bit of western
civilization tailoring and I sus
pected it was the only time those
gals ever put up with such im
pedimentia.
Chairs? “No, no chairs —and
no beds. We not sleep on beds”
, and he laughed at such a ridicu
lous thought —“We sleep on
floor. Oh, maybe we put blanket
on floor and maybe wrap round
us. The floor was made of sides
, of tree trunks so tremendous
that the sides were little curved.
. The floor was not far from flat,
j In the center of the floor was a
midget stove, a little tongue of
, flame licking the bottom of a
I kettle resting on it. The kettle,
| testifying to the intrusion of
; western civilization, was brew
’ ing “Yes, yes tea.”
’ It was almost mid-afternoon
' now, time to be setting off, and
f anyway the village citizens had
’ begun to neglect us. It was time
for church —a porch-belfried bell,
a bowl shaped hunk of iron sur
; viving no doubt some nearby Aus
’ tralian machine activity, now
had been clanged some ten min
} utes by a malleted bellman and
3 already many folks had assembl
' ed for worship in the little mis
} sion, a painted boarded building,
? only structure on the village
j reminiscent of western civiliza
\ tion.
What swimmers those native
j kids. As the biggest outrigger
‘ canoe was taking its load across
7 the cove to the village beach a
dozen of them, one after the
1 other, climbed on the canoe rig
-1 ging, dove, swam back, in con
tinuous cycle. Diving, submerg
’ ing, re-appearing, climbed back
on the rigging, they were a hu
man water wheel.
J Ashore, we were yelled at as
’ they stood belly-deep: “Throw
six-p’nce! Throw si x p’nce.”
Somebody did, past them into
deeper water, and simultaneous
ly all heads and bodies were
gone, feet where heads should
| be, following them. Up with
; the coin in a jiffy came the
“winnah.”
On return trip across the cove
our boy ferryman, fearful we
! wouldn’t pay him, kept begging
L us to throw two bob into the
water, even at the deep mid
point. Among us five passen
’ gers there was but one available
' coin my florin (cwo bob), since
we had spent or loaned all our
cash on our village tour and had
paper currency left. I turned
1 chicken on the boy and reneged,
lest he get nothing at the shore.
The song-worn term “tropical
; splendor” really applied to that
; village scene across the cove.
: Giant coconut palms stood high
. in the sun, like Jong stemmed
i umbrellas, shading the narrow
' peninsula below. Pure sand
1 edged the land, sparkling bright
, in the light. The huts, appear
’ ing now and again through the
palms, were an artist’s version
of home in the south seas.
The cove’s waters were pleas
‘ ant to the eye, wrinkled lightly
; as crepe paper by a fresh sea
’ breeze. As we neared the shore
1 they were gently rinsing the
, yellow sands of the beach.
' Odd how all common life re
-1 solves into a common pattern
: when you get to examining it.
[ Basically the same as we, those
Papuans eat, drink, work and
1 love in the pursuit of happiness.
; They just have not acquired our
more delicate arts (nor our apt
. ness at contorting pleasure).
COUNTY’S QUOTA $5,000
IN RED CROSS DRIVE
,1
Houston county’s quota in the
annual Red Cross War Fund
Drive is $5,000 according to G.
W. Rhodes, county chairman. In
1943. the county raised $2,967.00
for the Red Cross. The annual
drive is conducted during the
month of March.
The Sorosis club is sponsoring
the drive in Perry. Supt. E. P.
Staples is directing the campaign
in Perry school and County Supt.
F. M. Greene in the county
schools. Principal A. D. Red
mond and Supervisor Helen Mar
tin of the colored schools will
conduct the drive among the
colored people.
Community directors are: Mrs.
E. F. Tharpe, Centerville; Miss
Caroline Braswell and Mrs. H. S.
Kezar, Elko; Mrs. Joe Davis,
Clinchfield; Mrs. Jack Ammons,
Bonaire: Mrs. A.R. Talton, Kath
leen; Mrs. L. M. McCormick,
Hayneville; Mrs. Edra Wynne,
Henderson.
The town of Warner Robins is
being organized by the Macon
Red Cross chapter of w h i c h
Houston county is an Auxiliary.
Contributions from the town will
be reported through Houston
county.
FARM REPORT MUST
BE FILED IN MARCH
1 There are 65 farm operators in
Houston county so busy that they
can’t report their 1943 agricul
-1 tural performance, in order to
qualify for ACP payments.
1 That’s what E. W. Traylor,
. county administrative officer of
the Houston County Agricultural
■ Conservation Association, was
wondering today for those 65
I farmers stand to lose more than
$5,000.00 unless they file 1943
' performance reports by March 31.
; Approximately 680 farm opera
tors have filed 1943 agricultural
' conservation performance re
’ ports with the county AAA of
' fice, Mr. Traylor pointed out,
: showing acreage planted to cot
* ton, tobacco, wheat, soil con
■ serving crops, and land uses.
Approximately $5,000.00 is
’ now being paid to these farmers
3 as a result of their performance
■ reports.
This is the first year that farm
; operators have reported their
r Ovvn performance, Mr. Traylor
3 said, and the failure to report
1 performance will cause all per
-5 sons on the farm to be ineligible
‘ for payments.
“March 31 is the final date for
■ filing performance reports in the
: AAA office,” Mr. Traylor as
‘ serted, urging farm operators“to
file immediately information nec
-3 essary to complete applications
J for their farms so that they and
their tenants miy receive pay
> ments earned.”
1
* BASKETBALL
’ PERRY HIGH
B Winner
; Vs.
LESLIE HIGH
C Winner
Thurs., Mch. 2, 8 p. m.
! PERRY COURT
i I dare say that our village
; host, clothed and bred occident
, ally, would be our match in our
i style society. He was intelli
I gent-eyed, pleasant and com
fletely communicative. His sym
1 pathies were not local but uni
t versal.
I had seen pictures of them
; but today 1 rode in one: a native
i outrigger canoe. The hull is a
big hollowed-out tree, outrigging
. bracketing to it a float. The pow
i er sits in the stern, paddling like
i any canoeist. You just don’t tip
> over with that float out there
; balancing the craft. Some out
rigger canoes are powered by
. sails.
i I decided to write this native
, story, It saves me the time of
: writing it many times and
1 shelves the challenge of telling
it differently each time. I hope
i this will give you an idea just
what New Guinea is and just
■ what the native villiage is.
I hope that you like it.
METHODISTS HAVE
j DEDICATION WEEK
At the Perry Methodist church
i this week, members are pledg-
I ing rededication of “self, ser
, vice and substance” to the war
time tasks and opportunities of
. Christians, as the culminating
feature of the denomination’s
, nation-wide second annual Week
of Dedication, February 27 to
March 5, it was announced to
day by Rev. J. E. Sampley, pas
tor of the church.
I Nearly 8,000,000 Methodists
, are taking part in the obser
vance in 42,000 churches, where
they will “renew their covenant
, with God and give of their sub
stance to building His kingdom
in the hearts and lives of men,”
states Bishop Paul B. Kern of
Nashville, Tenn., chairman of
the national Committee of the
Week of Dedication.
“A world at its worst calls for
, a church at its best” is the gen
eral theme for the entire week,
j Daily services are emphasizing
the place of the Church in the
I present world emergency as re
lated to the home, the communi
ty, “the world task,” and “its
source of power.”
Methodism’s “mobilization of
its spiritual resources” will cul
-1 minate on Sunday, March 5, when
men, women and children will
make personal commitments of
1 dedication and contribute to a
sacrificial, voluntary offering.
The offering will be used to car
-1 ry on war emergency projects,
including the following:
Expansion of missionary work
. in Latin America, aid to mis
-1 sionaries in invaded countries,
! spiritual ministry to members of
’ the armed services, relief for war
‘ refugees, new buildings an d
> workers for Christian services to
“dislocated” families in war in
■ dustry communities, and special
' aid to Methodist schools. None
of these projects are provided
for in the regular church budget.
1 “The Church stands in the
' midst of a world surrounded by
‘ perils and full of possibilities,”
declared Mr. Sampley. “Chris
-5 tian people are backing the boys
5 and girls on the fighting fronts,
I promising to work, pray and
plan for a peaceful world in
‘ which all peoples may live as
' brothers. Methodism’s Week of
■ Dedication gives our people their
opportunity to rededicate them
selves to this cause, spiritually
and financially.”
The week’s program began at
the Ferry church Sunday with
; the observance of Layman’s
Day. Chas. P. Gray, chmn.
' board of Stewards, spoke on
’ “The Church at Its Best” at the
’ mornmg hour. Th e pastor’s
'.text Sunday night was “God’s
Call.”
Monday night, A. W. Dahl
berg talked on ‘.The Church in
an Hour of Emergency.” Tues
day night, G. W. Rhodes dis
cussed “The Church and the
Home.” Wednesday night, E.P.
Staples spoke on “The Church
land the Community.
To-night (Thurs.) S. A. Nunn
will speak on “The Church and
the World Task” at 7:30 o’clock.
Friday night, Mrs. L. C. Walk
er’s subject will be “The Church
and Its Source of Power.”
BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sunday School, 10:15 a. m.
Morning Worship Service 11:30.
J Evening Worship 8:00 p. m.
Prayer Service Wednesday,
‘ 7:30 p. m.
Training Union, 7;00 p. m.
Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor.
i
I MEAT SUPPLY
j J
. j While the supply of fresh meat
II will b • a >out the same in 1944 as
r the 1913 supply, we shall have
’.j approximately 50 percent more
>j canned meat in 1944. There will
,i be less canned fish in the first
. j six months of the year, but more
. I in the last half of 1944,
j - —**
VEGETABLE SEED
[' Our total supply of vegetable
I seed, estimated at some 391,000,-
f 000 pounds, will not be on the
i market as some is allocated to
t our allies and other government
t purposes. Farmers and garden
ers in the United States will get
275,252,000 pounds.
