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VOL. LXXIII. No. 26. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY. J UNE 29. 1944 ESTABLISHED 1870
CONSERVATION DIST.
CALENDAR USEFUL
A calendar for 1944 containing
much valuable information on
soil conservation has been issued
by the Middle Western Ocmul
gee River Soil Conservation dis
trict, under direction of the su
pervisors. This calendar has at
tracted widespread interest
throughout Georgia according to
g W. Hickson, chairman of the
board of supervisors.
In addition to many other im
portant items, the calendar con
tains information regarding the
proper way to treat and improve
the land. There are 150 remind
ers, Mr. Hickson states of prac
tical suggestions for soil conser
vation in this particular section
of the state.
During the past spring, 1,440
acres of kudzu was planted in
the district. Over the period
since the district was organized
there have been 8,330 acres plant
ed. During the past fall and
winter 15,000 acres of land was
terraced. This is equivalent to a
terrace 1,174 miles long or one
reaching from Perry, Ga. to El
Faso, Texas.
Over 50,000 acres have been
terraced in the district during
the past four years. Six and a
half million pine trees have been
planted and 10,000 acres of pas
tures have been established.
Four years ago blue lupin
seed was distributed by the dis
trict for trial planting. During
the past few weeks nearly a mil
lion pounds of seed have been
harvested. Blue lupin is a win
ter legume that has an advan
tage over some other legumes
because it produces seed in this
section. Enormous sums of mon
ey have been going out of this
section for winter legume seed
that can be kept at home by the
use of blue lupin, and it is fast
becoming popular with farmers,
it is pointed out.
During the next three months
the district agencies will assist
farmers in working out plans for
soil conservation on their farms.
Some time will be devoted to the
building of fish ponds and en
couraging the use of established
stands of kudzu for grazing and
for hay.
Plans for this fall include seed
ing of large acreages of blue lu
pin or other winter legumes on
land where peanuts have been
harvested, building of additional
terraces and pasture lands. Every
county in the district will have
two or more tractors that will be
used for laying terraces. These
tractors will be operated by the
farmers and terraces will be
built on contract with the AAA.
Placing the work of the dis
trict before the public has been
one of the reasons for the amount
of work accomplished. Getting
across the idea of saving the soil
and encouraging the establish
ment of good conservation prac
tices is paying dividends in bet
ter yield.
The calendar furnishes an easy
and helpful way of putting good
conservation reminders before
the farmers every day of the
year. Other districts have ex
pressed their intention of trying
k out in the future.
The supervisors are working on
their new calendar for 1945
which will be an improvement in
several respects. The board of
supervisors includes besides Mr,
Hickson, A. C. Richardson, B. T.
Welchel, W. J. Butler and J. B.
ballon. It comprises the' coun
ties of Bibb, Crawford, Dooly,
Houston, Pulaski, Peach, Taylor,
and Wilcox.
CITY GETSF.W.A.GRANTI
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The City of Perry has been]
granted $4,028 by the Federal
borks Agency of Washington,'
.• B. for a waterworks extern;
project. The City will add |
to the above grant and j
Intend the waterworks system 1
through New Hope to the new 1 ';
totato Curing Plant and Dehy
dration Plant on the Fort Valley
road.
the contract for this work will
he awarded sometime in the near
future.
T his extension of the water
works system will give the
ClJ iored people of New Hopej
waterworks and better fire pro*:
lection.
i
j The Honor Roll of Service Men:
iwill be unveiled at exercises;
Sunday morning at 11:30 o’clock.
,! Members of the Armed Forces
[jwho are connected with the Per
; r y Methodist church by member
, ship or family ties are to be hon
ored by the placing of their
names on a Service Chart. The
families of these men are invited
to be present at the service next
| Sunday, July 2.
i ihe pastor, Rev. J. E. Samp
ley, will preach on the text,
. Bender Unto Caesar th e
Things that are Caesar’s and un
,t° God the Things that
are God’s.” Special music
is being arranged by G. F.
Miss Carlene Ogletree
and Miss Merriamme Rhodes will
give short readings.
Last Sunday Dr. C. K. Vliet
i spoke on Cuba at the Church
School and on ‘‘A World Hungry
for Christ” at the morning hour.
After the service, voluntary con
tributions of $250 were made by
the congregation for the con
, struction of a small chapel in
Chile, South America. One
; member pledged $3OO a year for
i the support of the missionary
j who will serve this chapel which
I is to be used for Indians there.
. I The church raised a special
fund of $7OO for missions this j
spring in addition to its regular
World Service fund.
BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
The pastor, Rev. J. A. Ivey,
will occupy his pulpit at both
services next Sunday after an
absence of six weeks spent in
studying at Southwestern Bap
-1 j tist Theological Seminary near
I Fort Worth, Texas.
Sunday School, 10:15 a. m.
1 Morning Worship Service 11:30.
Training Union, 7:30 p. m.
Evening Worship 8:30 p. m.
Prayer Service Wednesday,
7:30 p. m.
Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor.
: BOND RALLY JULY 1
A Bond Rally will be held in
Perry Saturday, July 1. by a
Caravan from Fort Penning, Ga.
A band concert will begin about
sp. m. At 6:30 p. m., the Per
ry Kiwanis club will entertain
the Penning soldiers with a bar
becue supper. Alton Hardy,
club secty., is in charge of the
supper. Eugene Beckham, vice
chairman, Houston County sth
War Loan Drive, will welcome
the Caravan,
The people of Perry and Hous
ton county are invited to attend
this patriotic rally and buy bonds'
! at that time.
Houston county has bought
$254,000 of its $503,000 quota for
the sth War Loan Drive. Citizens
; are urged to buy all the War
Bonds they can buy between
now and July 8.
LIBRARY NOTES
For good entertainment read,
‘‘Leave Her to Heaven”, by Bern
i Ames Williams, a dramatic story I
i of a woman who dominated the
lives of those about her. Of the
many new mystery stories added
to the library the most popular
is, ‘‘Laura”, by Caspary.
i One of the most distinguished;
biographies of recent years is, |
‘‘Yankee from Olympus”, by
Catherine Drinker Bowen. It
portrays the lives of Justice
Holmes and his family.
‘‘The World’s Greatest Reli
jgious Poetry,” an anthology
1 compiled by Caroline Hill, is a
[splendid source book of religious j
verse. A most useful book for j
[every possible form of entertain-i
iment is, ‘‘Successful Entertain-!
imenf’.by Ida Bailey Allen.
1 Most timely is, ’This is Your;
[War”, by Ernie Pyle. The noted;
| war correspondent’s account ofj
lour boys in the armed forces is j
j very informative.
Library open every afternoon]
[except Wednesday from 1:30 toj
16:30 p. m.
Verniece Beavers, Librarian, j
CARD OF THANKS
(
We deeply appreciate the many 1
acts of kindness shown us and;
words of sympathy expressed
during the illness and death of
[our wife and mother.
J, D. Linton and j
1 Family.
j
YOUR STAKE IN THE FUTURE
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Franklin Alexander —Philadelphia llulletin
LOCAL STATE GUARD NEWS
Company F., Ga. State Guard,
had a barbecue supper Tuesday
night, June 20, at the Perry
High Gymnasium for members
and their wives. Capt. F. M.
Houser, commander, presided.
Lt. Col. Sam A. Nunn, Batta
lion commander, of Perry, and
his staff and their wives were
guests on this occasion. Staff
members present were: Capt.
K. C. James SI, Americus:Capt.
J. W. Bivins S 2, Cordele; Capt.
T. A. Jones S 3; Fort Valley;
Capt. T. J. Wallace S 4, Ameri
cas; Capt. Roy Johnson, assis
sistant S 4, Americus; Capt. R.
C. Collins, Battalion signal of
ficer, Americus; Lt. James Coad,
Battalion chaplain, Fort Valley.
Col. Nunn announced that the
Houston county unit, Co. F., had
been rated in a recent federal in
spection as superior, which is
the highest rating given to a
state guard unit.
The local company is very ac
tive and recently sent two men
to the Machine Gun School at
the Atlanta Ordnance Depot on
June 17-18. These men were!
2nd Lt. Paul W. Massey and
Corp. Robert W. Maxwell, /fhey
learned all about machine * guns
and are prepared to teach others
jin the company on the function
of these guns.
Col. R. W. Collins, commander
;of Ga. State Guard has been ad-j
vised by the Army that the j
State Guard will be supplied,
with better clothing, arms, and;
equipment. Col. Collins thinks;
this increased interest in the
Guard should be an incentive to
all eligible men to join the State j
Guard immediately.
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MRS. J. D. LINTON DIES
Funeral services were held last
Thursday in Bethune, S. C., for
Mrs. Minnie Lundy Linton, 45,
wife of J. D. Linton of Perry,
J formerly of South Carolina.
Mrs. Linton died in Hawkins
! ville early Tuesday morning,
June 20, after a brief illness.
She is survived by her hus
band; three sons, Jacob D. Lin
ton Jr. and Harry L. Linton,
both in the U. S. Army, and
Freddie Linton of Perry; one
j daughter, Mary, of Perry; her
1 mother, Mrs. Henry Lundy of
iGreenville, S. C., and one sister,
(Mrs. W. S. Smothers, of Greyn
| ville, S. C.
Funeral services were held at
I the Presbyterian church in Be
jthune with Rev. Simpson of
; ficiating and burial was in the
] Bethany cemetery there.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The circles of the Baptist W.
j M. S. will meet Monday, July 3,1
1 4 p. m. as follows: No. 1, Mrs, j
(G. S. Riley with Mrs. J. A. Ua
' vis, co-hostess; No. 2, Mrs. D.M.
Ryle with Mrs. Annie Watson,
I co-hostess.
The Methodist W. S. C. S. will
i meet next Monday, July 3,4 j
jp. m. Miss Pearl Edwards will
be the guest speaker. !
DARBY W, BRYANT AWARDED
DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS
AN EIGHTH AAF BOMBER I
STATION, England—The Dis-j
tinguished Flying Cross has been!
awarded Technical Sergeant Dar
by W. Bryant of Perry, Ga..
cameraman and gunner with a
Flying Fortress squadron of the
Eighth Air Force.
Already holder of the Air Mod
al with three Oak Leaf Clusters,
Sgt. Bryant received the UFC
for “extraordinary achievement”
while serving as a photographer
gunner on a B-17 bomber during i
numerous combat missions over
enemy-occupied Continental
Europe.
Sgt. Bryant first went into
action on September 26, 1943,
when his squadron bombed an
airfield near Rheims. As pho
tographer, his mission was to
take pictures to verify bombing
results and to photograph any
thing else on the enemy’s ground
that might prove interesting to
AAF command. A qualified
gunner, he took over a fifty
-1 calibre machine gun in emer
-1 gencies. Although he himself
has never received official credit
for destroying an enemy aircraft,
four have been credited to gun
ners with whom Sgt. Bryant was
flying at the time.
He has flown to both Berlin
'and Paris, when his squadron
! attacked a factory near Paris
and a marshalling yard in Ber-
Min. He has been to Frankfort
j three times, photographing the
bombing chemical plants; and
!three times to Brunswick, when;
i the big bombers went after the
| enemy’s aircraft factories. His
worst trip was Bremen, when
his plane was forced to land
at sea.
“We ditched on that one,” he
says. “We had three engines
knocked out.” Seven men lost
their lives, the Georgian being
one of the three who survived.
Sgt. Bryant is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Bryant of Per
ry, Ga. He was an aircraft
builder with Consolidated Air
craft in San Diego, Calif., before
he entered the AAF in March
1942.
PRIMARY TO BE JULY 4
The Georgia State Democratic
Primary will be held next Tues
day, July 4, throughout the state.
Polls will be open in every pre
cinct in Houston county from 9
a. m. to 7 p. m. J. P. Etheridge,
chmn. Democratic Executive
committee, and J. W. Blood
worth, secretary, are making ar
rangements for holding the pri
mary in Houston county.
J. W. Bloodworth is unopposed
for county representative in the
General Assembly.
i DIVIDEND DECLARED
The directors of the Perry Fed
eral Savings and Loan Associa
tion declared a yearly dividend
semi-annual divi
dend of 11-4% at their recent
I June meeting. The association
1 has $212,000 in shares made up
1 largely of local capital.
SOFTBALL LEAGUE NEWS
• By G. F. NUNN
All-star dynamite exploded
Sunday under the feathers of
the Parrots and when the air
was finally cleared of feathers
and the bases of stars, the Par
rots had suffered their worst de
feat of the season, and their first
in the last eleven panics; the
score —13-3. The game began
with all the fiare and color it was
slated to have, as Mgr, Skellie’s
team (All Stars) took the field
only to find that one of their
players was missing,having been
locked in the school building,and
the Parrots began to screech
and scream of the nervousness
and intentional delay of their op
ponents. Then as the game be
gan, the Parrots appeared to
have assumed a new role —that
of batsmen rather than defens'e
artists—as Watts and Walker led
off with hits and there were two
men on with no outs. The Hardy
brothers, pitcher and catcher for
the Stars, then held a hurried
conference on strategy and de
cided to pass H. Braddock, hard
hitting Parrot shortstop, and
thereby fill the bases, hoping to
get a forced play on clean-up
man Peavy. The strategy work
ed, Watts was forced out at
home, Peavy was doubled at
first, and the next hitter lofted
a fly ball to left as the budding
rally was nipped. Th e Stars
then came up with their vaunted
batting power and lead-off man
Wilson was an easy out as the
j Parrots talked it up and tossed
| the ball around. Then the lightn
iing struck —Heller singled clean-
Ily past third, A. Hardy slashed
a hit past first, and with runners
on second and third, the Parrot
strategy was the same as that of
the Stars as Staples was handed
an intentional pass. But fate
was against the Parrots and the
next batter cleared the bags
with a triple: three more hits in
! succession produced three more
runs and the ball game was on
ice with the Stars holding a 6-0
lead. The losers fought back
gamely with a run in the 4th
and 2 in the Bth, but were never
in the game again, while as if to
prove that the first inning was
not a fluke, the Stars lashed out
again in the 4th with six more
runs, featuring A Braddock’s
triple atop the Ag. building in
right field.
So it was a great show with
All-Star hitting power providing
its superiority over the fast and
accurate fielding of the cham
pion Parrots. But nothing can
be taken from the fine play of
the Graymen throughout the
first half, and thOr fielding was
of top quality throughout the
game Sunday, as time after time
G. Gray, Pierce, and W. Gray
raced up or back as the occasion
demanded to rob some Star of a
potential hit, while Braddock and
Reeves played their usual fine
game on the infield. Walker led
1 the Parrots at bat with 2 hits
and as many runs, while for the
Stars, C. Hardy and Nunn with
three hits each, Jed the attack.
The preliminary was a colorful
affair between the teams of the
Boy Scout troop and the Kiwa
rns club, with the Graybeards
taking the game by one run after
two extra innings. The high
spot of this game came when
Scout Sam Norwood struck out
his boss, J. Beddingfield, after
first hitting him with a pitched
ball. Other such antics as Dusty
Rhodes finally getting a strike
across the plate, C. Cooper sit
ting out a couple of innings and
not being missed from his post in
short field, Harry Dubose streak
ing all the way from first to
home as Claud Andrew waited at
second to tag him and not seeing
him as he went by, all enlivened
the game and made the outcome
a matter of relative unimpor
tance.
The second half begins next
Sunday with the same teams as
played out the first half the
Owls meeting the Parrots in the
single opening game and t h e
Hawks and Eagles playing the
twin bill. 1 All the teams will be
gunning for the Parrots now
that they know they can be beat
en, and a lot of fun is in store
for all. Be there.
In all instances where our ex
perience of the past has been ex
tensive and uniform, our judg
ment as to the future amounts to
moral certainty.— James Beateit.
{observations on
, FARMS IN HOUSTON
W. T. M., County Agent
I Farmers in every section of
the county made good use of the
fair weather since the rains to
' clean their cotton, corn and pea
! nut fields of grass, coffee weeds
and pursley.
; On the farms of W. N. John
son, W. W. Gray, W. C. Langs
ton. and W. B. Sexton, I saw
some mighty pretty work being
done with one and two row trac*
tor equipment.
This week will about end Hi
ley Belle peaches. Those hav
ing Georgia Belles will begin by
the last of the week. Elbertas
should begin moving about July
5. The Elberta crop looks
pretty good but needs more rain
to make the peaches size pro
perly,
Anyone in doubt about enough
labor to harvest peanut crop
please see me, and if any assis
tance is located we will at least
know who needs it.
Fifth War Loan Drive
The Chairman of the Fifth
War Loan Drive for Houston
County, Mr. Mayo Davis, has
appointed me as Chairman of
' Rural Section of the County.
. The quota for Houston county is
, $503,000.00.
This drive began on June 12
and ends on July 8, and all bonds
, bought up to July 25 count on
j the drive. This letter is to ad
vise you what Uncle Sam is ex
pecting you to do: “Buy all tne
[ War Bonds you can.” And do
, it between now and July 8.
• We will have an Army Cara
■ van and Band to visit Perry,
I I Saturday, July 1, at 4p. m. ad
, vertising this Bond Drive. Be
i present and buy as many Bonds
, as you can.
| Pay your debts and put the
; rest in War Bonds. You’ll be
, you did when conditions
, get back to normal.
! O.D.T. TAKES OVER NEW
TRUCK ALLOCATION
i
Operators of commercial ve
hicles who need to purchase new
equipment after July 1 should
file their applications with the
District Office of Defense Trans
portation instead of the Bureau
of Motor Carriers of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, Joe
F. Pruett, ODT’s District Man
ager at Macon announced today.
All field work incidental to the
rationing of new commercial ve
hicles will be handled by the
Highway Transport Department
of the ODT, through transfer of
this activity from the ICC, which
has handled the allocations for
the past two years, he explained.
The policies and procedures as
adopted and as practiced by local
allocation offices in ICC will be
continued, he said. The strictest
standard regarding the approval
of applications will be observed,
as only a small percentage of the
new commercial vehicles being
manufactured will or can be used
for civilian purposes, Mr. Pruett
declared.
New commercial vehicles as
far as allocation is concerned do
not include integral motor buses,
■ which are allocated under differ
ent procedures, the ODT said.
The shifting of allocation opera
tions from the ICC to the ODT is
expected to effect adminiatrative
economies as well as to expedite
the processing of applications be
cause of the larger number of
field offices available to operators
of commercial motor vehicles.
The Macon District Office is lo
cated at 1113 Bankers Insurance
Building. It has jurisdiction
over the following counties: Bald
win, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Cal
houn, Chattahoochee, Clay,
Crawford, Crisp, Dooly, Dodge,
Dougherty, Harris, Houston,
Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Laurens,
Lee, Macon, Marion,Meriwether,
Monroe, Montgomery, Muscogee,
Peach, Pike, Pulaski, Putnam,
Quitman, Schley, Randolph,
Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taylor,
Telfair, Terrell, Treutlen,'Troup,
Twiggs, Turner, Upson, Webster,
Wheeler, Wilcox, Wilkinson, and
Worth.
He lives long that lives well,
and time misspent is not lived,
but lost,—Fuller.
