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VOL. LXXIII. No. 24
WAR BOND RALLY TO
BE HELD HERE JULY 1
FORT BENNING, Ga. —A ca
ravan of hardy infantrymen and
rugged paratroopers with the
latest Army equipment for com
bat will visit Perry on Saturday,
July 1 for a rally at 5 o’clock,
CWT.
Two overseas veterans,soldiers
who have been returned to Fort
Penning after having been in
combat in Africa and the South
Pacific, will accompany the
caravan and speak briefly to the
war bond rally on their experi
ences.
The 222nd Army Ground
Forces Band from the Parachute
School at Fort Penning, number
ing 28 men, will be in the cara
van to furnish military music for
the rally to spur the sale of War
Bonds during the Fifth War
Bond campaign.
The caravan, numbering more
than 60 military personnel and
seven vehicles, is slated to tour
at least 23 Georgia communities
with an aggregate population of
more than 400,000 persons in
western and mid-western Geor
gia,
Arranged by Fort Penning
military authorities, in collabora
tion with representative* of the
Georgia War Finance Division of
the Treasury Department, the
caravan will make its first ap
pearance in Atlanta on Monday,
June 12, for the opening gun in
the Fulton-DeKalb County War
Bond campaign.
The Perry Kiwanis club will
sponsor this War Bond Rally in
Perry and entertain the soldiers
with a barbecue supper after the
exercises.
All of the citizens of Houston
county are urged to attend this
Rally at sp. m. July lon Court
House Square.
CANNING PLANT OPENS
The Houston County Canning
Plant opened Wednesday for the
summer canning season. The
plant will be open on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday every
week for white people and on
Thursdays for colored people.
L. C. Walker is supervisor and
Mrs. Clifford Grimes, instructor.
Miss Mc-Kinley, of Vienna, Ga,,
new home economics teacher of
Perry High school, will assist in
the plant. Homer Driggers of
Centerville will also be an assis
tant.
The opening hour is 8 a. m.
Nothing will be taken in for can
ning after 3 p. m., however
everything brought in before 3
p. m. will be canned before clos
ing time.
PERRY GIRLS W I N
HONORS AT SHORTER
Shorter College announces the
honor roll for the year just clos
ed and at the same time the hon
or roll for the second semester of
the year.
Phi Sigma Alpha is the acade
mic honor society of Shorter Col
lege. This honor is limited to a
relatively small percentage of
members of the Senior Class
who, throughout their residence
at Shorter, have maintained un
usually high scholastic records.
In addition, these students must
have exemplified in their person
al conduct the ideals of Shorter
College student life.
Admitted to membership this
'•'ear was Jean Grubb of Perry,
Receiving honorable mention was
Marion Grubb of Perry.
Graduating with highest honor
were Jean and Marion Grubb of
Perry, who were on the highest
honor roll both semesters.
On the year’s honor roll was
Meriamme Rhodes of Perry, a
Junior.,
SAFETY SLOGANS
A middle of the road'man hasn’t
y admirers in politics or
among the automobile drivers.
In passing a truck at night be
Hu . re and not underestimate its
width.
. A good way to watch the road
18 through the windshield.
An empty train of thought has
I caused many a wreck.
Houston Home Journal
! SOFTBALL LEAGUE NEWS j
By G. F. NUNN
——
Mgr. Skellie’s Owls bounded!
out of the cellar Sunday with a
[double victory over the Hawks
of Mgr. Staples; the scores 4-1
and 3-1. Minus the services of
“Rip” Evans, the Hawks were
definitely a slower outfit and
tho’ the games were close and
hard-fought, the outcome was
hardly a surprise even to the
Owls. Hitting and fielding star
for the day was A. Braddock of
the Owls with three hits and a
1 dozen or more fine stops on third
base. Mgr. Skellie placed him
self on first base and gave the
bleacherites a show with his nu
merous good catches accompani
ed by appropriate remarks. Oc
casionally the remarks were not
accompanied by the catch, but
all in all he played himself a fine
game. C. Hardy clinched the
second game with a long homer
[over the center fielder’s head,
[while his little brother, Alton,
also came through with one in
the garden.
The double-header found the
Parrots running rough shod over
the Eagles in both games and
[thereby stretching their victory
string to nine games. The
[scores were 6-1 and 5-1 and the
[Eagles were a beaten and listless
, j ball club throughout. Parrot
| batters had a field day at the ex
pense of young Sam Norwood in
the first game and banged out 14
: safeties, Walker, Dubose, and G.
, Gray getting three each, in the
I nightcap they were held to five
hits but made each of these
count for runs. Mgr. Gray stole
the show in this game by calling
his own homer with the bases
i loaded, and after that it was
i merely routine as the Eagles col
lected only three hits and one
. run. Young Dubose hurled two
; fine games for the Parrots, allow
ing a total of only seven hits for
the two games, and was inextin
guishable at the plate, getting
four hits.
The standings now show the
: Parrots to be the first-half cham
ypions, with no other team being
yable fo overtake them in the re
; maining games. Because of this,
next Sunday’s games will com
’ plete the first-half play with the
, All-Star game being played the
following Sunday, June 25. This
I game will be between the cham
pion Parrots and an all-star com
bination selected from the other
■ teams. However, the all-star
team as published in next week’s
■ paper will be that selected from
. all four teams, as it would be.un
fair to the outstanding perform
ers on the Parrot team not to se
. lect them as all-stars. Pres. I
, Hardy is requesting that each!
j manager hand to him before!
. game time next Sunday his se-1
lections, and that wherever a-
Parrot is chosen, a substitute be
named to play in his place. The
team will include 2 pitchers, 1
catcher, 4 infielders,4 outfielders,
1 utility player, and 1 manager.
Expenses for supplies and
; equipment haee been rather
heavy to date, and though some
; fine contributions have beenj
made, all those interested in
helping are to be given the
chance Sunday when a collection
• will be taken. This is purely
; vountary as no charges have
; been or will be made for the
; games, and the enjoyment of all!
; is worth the investment of a|
I few. The race has not been
close since the first round of
: play, but it is this writer’s belief
that with a new half about to
■ begin, new enthusiasm will be
generated, and the teams will
i begin rising up and knocking off
the Parrots —only team so far to j
: play above .500. Keep coming!
I and pulling for your favorites—}
'iyou’ll enjoy it. I
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NOTICE
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A Validating Machine for|
[Drivers’ License will be in Perry!
'Monday, June 19, in operation by 1
| the State Patrol. t
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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 15. 1944
Above is the official Father’s Day poster for 1944. The painting is the
work of Herbert Bohnert, famous poster illustrator. The original is in four
colors and will be printed in these same four colors in many sizes and
shapes and distributed throughout the country. The poster is dedicated
to the Father Bond Drive of the United States Treasury Department.
The Strongesl of Bonds—Your Dad
and Your Country, Is the Slogan of
Father’s Day, June 18—Buy Bonds
WASHINGTON, D. C. —June 00—1
Father’s Day which falls on June 18th,
1944, will be a different kind of celebra
tion of this event than in days before
the war. This year finds American fa- I
Pictured here is Ted R. Gamble, National Director of the- Treasury’s War
Finance Division, and his son, Ted R., Jr. The youngster is pinning a Father’s
Day rosette in his dad’s coat lapel. The rosettes arc made up of War Stamps.
Girl Scouts and others will sell the rosettes on Father’s Day, June 18.
thers away from home and family and
by hundreds of thousands in uniforms
of the Armed Services of our country.
Many fathers are overseas.
So this year’s Father’s Day is Amer
ica’s “Salute to our Fighting Dads”.
I The National Father’s Day Committee,
in conjunction -with the United States
Treasury, is conducting a gigantic Fa
ther Bond Drive. There is an earnest
and all-abiding awareness to push on to
victory in the observance of this year’s
Father’s Day. And every move being
planned for the event is keyed to that
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| one underlying motivation. The battle
cry for the Father Bond Drive and for
the observance connected with Father’s
Day this year is “The Strongest of
1 Bonds—Your Dad and Your Country.
Buy a Bond for Father’s Day.” Father,
himself, needs no reminding and will
take note of the holiday created in his
honor by himself buying bonds for Fa
ther’s Day. The family is being urged
to remember Dad—with War Bonds.
The nation is being asked to wear the
Father Rosette, a floral decoration
made of War Stamps—a gentle remind
er to all that there is only one idea in
anyone's mind for this year’s Father’s
Day and that is the winning of the war
as quickly as possible and that means
War Bonds and more War Bonds.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Slipping rugs worry you? Try
winding three “preserving jar”
rubbers together with thread and
* sew them to the bottom of each
corner of the throw rug. They
! form a good suction cup that
will prevent many accidents.
To protect polished metals,
such as candlesticks, a thin film
of colorless lacquer is very ef
fective. Just dusting them will
then shine them up in a jiffy.
When the finish wears off
brass or nickle fixtures, don’t
. bother to have them refinished —
| paint them over with quick-dry
, ing enamel to match the rest of
| the room.
To most men experience is like
the stern lights of a ship, which
illumine only the track it has
passed.—Coleridge.
GUADALCANAL FIGHTING
Ensign W. E. Ingram Jr., now
in Naval Hospital, writes of first
60 hours at Guadalcanal as fol
lows:
I’ll begin by saying my difficul
jtyis a combination of things
brought on by the life Eve led
during the last couple of years.
As soon as 1 got in the tropics
I caught chronic malaria and
have had it ever since. We just
ate atabrine tablets (similar to
quinine) all the time to keep the
fever down and went on. Then
one day off Guadalcanal I got
caught in the water when a
depth charge barage went off.
(I’ll tell about it later) and my
right side has given me trouble
ever since. One day off New
Britain, during a battle early this
year, a part of my radio equip
ment was badly damaged and so
was my bad side. The pain was
pretty severe and I just couldn’t
take it any longer. I’ll be under
doctor’s care for quite a while
but am assured that all I need is
rest and proper treatment.
I'm not much good at writing
or giving descriptions of my ex
periences but 1 can give an idea
of my thoughts and actions dur
ing the very hardest battle any
ship ever had to fight. It was
the 60 hours following the origi
nal landing at Guadalcanal. Dur
ing that time we fought seven
different battles with Japanese
cruisers, destroyers, shore bat
teries, submarines, high level
twin engined bombers, torpedo
planes, dive bombers and zeros.
At dawn, Aug. 7, we eased in
close to the beach and opened
fire along the beach where the
Marines were to land. The Japs
answered feebly with 40 mm and
75 mm guns which were quickly
knocked out. All was well until
a horizontal bombing attack
about ten o’clock by 40 twin en
engined bombers with zero cov
er, No hits. At two o’clock my
sound man made a submarine
contact and we were attacking it
with depth charges when 1 made
contact with approaching group
of unidentified aircraft. We
were out by ourselves then, on
submarine patrol duty, and my
radio indicated planes were ene
my so we tried to get up speed.
Planes then came in signt and
fixed landing gear identified
them as Aichi 99’s (dive bomb
ers). All of them dfove on us
and us alone in a steady stream.
1 guess they thought one sure
“kill” was better than attacking
the others together. Needless to
say it was determined and vio
lent. We stiot three of them
down in flames into the water
around us and four others bare
ly limped smoking over the hori
zon but we were a shambles from
a direct hit just aft of midships
and were atire astern. We learn
ed later that three of our sister
ships had made all possible speed
out to help us but they didn’t get
there until it was too late, 'the
cruisers also sent their fighter
; support and arrived after it was
all over. Needless to say our
casualties were high—about one
third of our crew were either
killed or wounded. When 1 ran
back to check on my radio-room
I found it demolished and the re
pair party was extinguishing a
tire where it was. Near there
the old Chief Boatswains Mate
was buisily washing the remains
of al7 man gun crew over the
side with a high pressure salt
water hose. This was a sight a
person doesn’t forget. I had to
turn away but he had a job to do
and he was doing it.
We got everything under con
trol and started getting reports
on the Japanese task force which
was headed south. That night
’ we expected a battle all night
but it didn’t come, but enemy
I planes attacked all next day. One
attack by 38 torpedo planes, they
lost every one, we got one and
• three probables. (Pro babies
went down but several ships
were shooting). Then we had
1 another submarine battle. That
. night the enemy cruisers and de
-1 stroyers made their attack and
, came within an “ace” of frus
trating our attack on Guadalca
nal. My ship being seriously
'damaged and short-handed as a
■ result of casualties, was assigned
[ inner submarine patrol around
the transports that night while
the cruisers took patrol across
3 the “slot” and the “fly.”
* At about two o’clock I decided
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ESTABLISHED 1870
'OBSERVATIONS ON
; FARMS IN HOUSTON
W. T. M., County Agent
3 Most all row crops in the
j county are reasonably free of
grass and weeds, due to the
5 long dry spell we have experi-
I enced. Most peanut fields look
: clear of grass, but on closer ex
> animation where a good weeding
, job was not done with weeder
i there is plenty of grass.
Peaches are beginning to
' move. Early Hileys and Golden
Jubilees are sizing and ripening
r since the rains about over the
.county last weekend. Peach
; growers are needing extra help
, ers to harvest peach crop. Any
one desiring temporary or per
, manent work during the peach
■ harvest, please list your name at
my office.
G. W, Hicks has a large field
. of sweet potatoes planted by the
. seed method similar to planting
Irish potatoes. He has better
. than 85% stand with ample slips
; on adjoining rows to replant all
skips.
Where sufficient rains fell this
weekend, potato growers will be
, planting potatoes. Experiments
, show that early planted potatoes
, yield the most potatoes. The
, planting date has already been
, delayed approximately 80 days
. due to dry weather.
I Grain harvesting is just about
, oyer for the 1944 season. Prac
tically every grower made a good
crop. Oats as a whole was bet
i ter than wheat. A few out
i breaks of grasshoppers have
; shown up and others will appear
if stuble is not turned immedi
ately. If outbreaks occur they
may be controlled with poison
bait composed of one .pound of
Paris green to 25 pounds of bran.
Add enough water to make a
crumbly mash and scatter over
the infected area late in after
noon.
: METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. C. K. Vliet of New York
City, secretary of Missionary Ed
ucation of The Methodist Church,
will preach in Perry Sunday,
June 25, 11:30 a. m. Dr. Vliet,a
member of the Florida confer
i ence, is head of the Bureau of
Specials of the church. Dr.
Vliet spoke here two years ago
to a large congregation.
Revival services will be held
by Perry Methodists July 23-30
with the pastor doing the preach
ing.
Church Services, 11:30 a. m.,
and 8:00 p. m.
Church School-10;15 a. m.
1 Young People’s Service. 7:00
p. m.
Rev. J. E. Sampley, Pastor.
NOTICE
The Red Cross Work Room
will be open during the summer
from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. on Tues
day and Thursday.
The workers of the Home Ser
-1 vice Dept, of the Red Cross will
1 be at the Legion Home on Thurs
day from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m.
Mrs. W. E. Beckham and Mrs,
Mayo Davis are the volunteer
’ workers of this department. A
| worker from the Macon office
! will also be present to assist in
' this work.
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) BAPTIST W.M.S. MEETS
The Baptist W. M. S. met at
. the church Monday p. rn. Mrs.
, C. E. Brunson, president, presid
ed and gave the devotional.
Mrs. J. P. Etheridge was
' r leader of the program which had
, for its topic. “His Mighty Acts
' in Mid-America.” Those taking
I part were Mesdarnes J. A. Ivey,
. H. T. Gilbert, and D. M. Ryle.
; The Sunbeams met at the same
time with Mrs. Emmit Akin in
. charge.
| NOTICE
A Hearing Aid Clinic will be
’ held by Miss Fay Holliday of the
Acousticon Institute of Atlanta,
f Ga. at the New Perry Hotel on
Monday, June 19, 1944, from 9
a. m. to 2p. m. Hard of hear
ting people are invited to attend
’jthis Hearing Aid Clinic where
■ they will he given this Diagnos
j tic Word and Test free of cost
'and without any obligation.
