Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, December 07, 1944, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1944 ESTABLISHED 1870 SUPERIOR COURT IN SESSION THIS WEEK Houston Superior Court began its regular December session Monday with Judge Malcolm D, Jones presiding. There were 31 civil cases on the calendar set for trial Monday and Tuesday. Of the 20 divorce cases up for trial, six received first verdicts, five received sec ond verdicts, three were dis missed and the balance continu ed. The ejection case against C. L. Sledge, Executor of the Will of Mrs. J. J. Ferrer, was dis missed by Judge Jones Tuesday after hearing testimony and ar guments of attorneys. The Grand Jury was organized Monday with J. T. Overton,fore man and Hugh Lawson, clerk, and adjourned Wednesday after noon. Through Tuesday 36 True Bills and 4 No Bills had been re turned. Judge Mallory C. Atkinson presided at the court Wednesday. Judge Atkinson will also preside next week. The following are the Traverse Jurors who will serve the court nextlweek: Traverse Jurors, Second Week —L. C. Walker, Jim Stubbs, T. j C. Johnson, Jr., L. B. Moody,Jr., Ivan Bramblett, P. M. Wade, A. A. White, C. B. Whitworth, H. E. Gordon, E. F. Bellflower, L. J. Garvin, Otis C. Lowery, Henry Rose, R. B. Jones, M. L. Rackley, J. 0. Bennett, Aldene Lasseter, 0. E. Rape, Thomas 0. Gordon, Ernest C. Padgett, J. B. Calhoun, C. 0. Grimes, Gus ( Johnson (col.), B, L. Co sey, I Moody B. Logue, Robert L, j Mathews, G. T. Pierce, Sr., Roy; L. Bloodworth, P. C. Hardy, Abe Goins, W. L. Renfroe, H. W. Huff Julian Johnson, H.E.Lewis, L. W. Clark, J. F. Stafford, Paul Massey, W. B. Roberts, W. M. Hartley, J. H. Peyton, J. Frank Rozar, Lucius Mitchell, A. W, Dahlberg, E. E. Loggins, A. 0. Brown, J. J. Rogers, W.M. Jones, Leroy Boswell, Sol Bernstein, H. V. Bramblett, G. G. Davis, W. T. Arnold, B. R. Miller, Clarence Holt, D. H. Daniels. Robert E. Horton, J.C.Leverette, L. H. Carlisle, B. H. Fretwell, R. L. Batchelor (L.T.), W. C. Harrison, J. R. Heath, J. E. Dix on, Raleigh G. Brannen, R. R. Pratt, N. F. McCommon,Thomas D. Mason, Jr., Thomas R. Na pier, Lewis Harper, E. S. Log gins, H. K. Roebuck, Walter H. Thompson, M. J. Helms, E. L. Sellers, H. V. Kersey, W. E. Beckham, L, W. Houser, James M. Scarborough, W. H. Thames, Jack Ellis, Smith Flournoy, C.M. Walker, F. G. Miller, W. W. Martin, Jr., J. Mark Mathews, George T, Walker, James T. Gar vin, W.T. Hill, Sr., W. B.Eyans, James A. Grubb, L.M. Harrison, Cliff Howard, C. E. Andrew, H. A. Herndon, A. B, Irby, J. I. Locke, G. E. Watson, George B. Wells, J. Meade Tolleson, Walter B. Williams. MISS HURST LISTED IN COLLEGE WHO’S WHO Miss Jule Hurst is one of twen ty-one students from the junior and senior classes of Woman’s College, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro, N. C., selected for the 1944-45 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. She is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs, Sam T. Hurst Jr. of Perry and the niece of Miss Lula Hurst and Mrs. Alva Davis. The above selection was on the basis of character, scholarship, leadership, extra curricular ac tivities, and future usefulness to; society. 1, Miss Hurst is the business'; manager of the school publica tion, Pine Needles; Marshal for; Aletheian Society; member of; Gamma Alpha; Y. Cabinet; was! president of freshman Y, junior-) senior Y and member of picture show committee. ANNOUNCEMENT The Clifford Hunter S.S. Class willhave a Christmas party Thur,, Dec. 14, 7:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Robt. Morris with Mrs. J. L. Andrews, Mrs. L.N. Jones, and Mrs. L. B. Moody, as co hostesses. All members are urg ed to be present. Houston Home Journal I PIS. BASKETBALL SPOTLIGHT ■ | By G. FRANCIS NUNN I Turning back the Montezuma | Indians last Friday night by a »j score of 41-19, the Perry Pan -1 thers gained their tenth conse cutive victory against no losses for the season. The Indians i were a disappointment to fans who had attended the meeting • between the two teams in Mon tezuma, where they handled the ■ ball like professionals and shot • with uncanny accuracy to throw • a real fright into the Panther den. Here they didn’t show 1 much fight after the first quarter and the second string Panthers scored against them in the last half almost as regularly as had the varsity. According the visitors the courtesy of allowing them to wear their gold jerseys when both teams had suits alike, the ' Panthers took the floor in their fancy new pants and the cutest little short handled white under shirts the crowd has ever seen them trot out. Each player had his middie tucked neatly into his shorts, and the crowd seemed all set to see the guards take their ■ lone bounce, a hop, a skip, and a | jump, stop at the center line and 1 pass to one of the forwards for a | push-off shot. But no such an tics were forthcoming as the five went busily about their task of throwing an impregnable defense around the Montezuma goal and and then running up a safe mar gin of points on their own ac count. Bledsoe led the early scoring with eight points in the first half and shared the high .point slot of the evening I with Satterfield at 10 points. I Skellie and Pierce were also ef | fective in the early shooting, while the defense was much more stable with veteran Tom mie Marshall back at his guard post. The second half was enlivened by the deadly shooting of Frank Satterfield, substitute forward, who put on a fine show for his folks and other backers by five field goals in almost as short a time as it takes to tell it. But the top shot of the evening came when scrappy Sam Norwood took a short pass in mid-court,pivoted and shot in the same motion, and the ball swished through the netting just as the final horn sounded. Not hardly as well played, but far more exciting was the second game featuring the Perry Mid gets against the Y. M. C. A. flyweights from Macon. Hotly fought throughout, and with the score frequently tied, this game was not decided until the final! period, when Perry forged j ahead to win by 4 points—26-22.1 Watts and E. Whipple led the j scoring for Perry while Schwartz of Macon sacked up 16 points to lead both teams. The high powered Cochran five visits Perry this week on Friday night and tangles with the Pan thers in a game in which they will surely be seeking revenge for the 2 point defeat hung on them by the Panthers on their I own court three weeks ago. If you haven’t seen a game so far, you must see this one, and if I you haven’t missed one, you can’t stay away this time. The lineups: PERRY 41 Bledsoe, L. 10 Pierce 4 Skellie 7 Marshall 2 Wilson 2 Norwood 2 Satterfield 10 Cooper (1 Whipple 0 Etheridge 0 ] Beavers) 4 i i Bledsoe, B. 0 1 1 MONTEZUMA 19 J Collins 1 Miller 6 Kinman 7 I Williams 3 j j McCorkle 1 j DeVaughn 1 1 Souter 0 ! Lt. Marion Brown Thomas, U. ] S. Navy, and Mrs. Brown and j daughter, Mary Stewart, spent Tuesday night with Mr, and I Mrs. J. J. Rooney enroute to their home in Anderson, Texas. Mr. B. H. Avera and his daughter, Miss Dorothy Avera, have moved to Fort Valley where i they are making their home. 1 ’ < fl "i , —•— —— r I METHODIST WSGS TO HONOR PASTOR’S WIFE WITH TEH Mrs. J, B. Smith, wife of the new pastor of the Perry Metho dist church, will be the honoree of the tea to be held next Mon day at 4 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Geo. C. Nunn by the Wo men’s Society of Christian Ser vice. Members of the Baptist W. M. S., the Presbyterian Wo« men’s Auxiliary, and the Wes leyan Service Guild have been invited to be guests. The occasion will also be the annual Harvest Day meeting of the W. S. C. S. when members complete their offerings for the year. An appropriate program will be presented. Plans for this affair were; made Monday at the meeting held at the church with Mrs. G. W. Hicks, president, presiding. A Christmas program was given. Those taking part were Mrs. H. E. Evans Jr,, Miss Nell Rogers, and Mrs. R. E. Ogletree. Mrs., Hicks gave the devotional. Circles were drawn for 1945. 1 They are as follows: Circle No. I—Mesdames L. C. Walker, T. D. Mason, Walter i Riley, T, R. Summers, C. B. An drew Sr., Carleton Hicks, H. B. Gilbert, N. W. H. Gilbert, S. L. I Norwood, W. K. Whipple, C. C, Chapman, B. H. Newberry, A.G. Hendrick, H. P. Houser Sr,, C. P. Gray, J. M. Holloman, A. M. Anderson Sr., 0. B. Muse, Fred Bonner, J. F. Bonner, J. C. Hel ler, C. C. Pierce, A. W. Dahl berg, S. W. Hickson, W. E. Mc- Lendon, L. M. Paul Jr., C. G. i Harris, A. P. Whipple, T. W. Hentz, C. B Andrew Jr., E. B. Wolfe, E. W. Marshall, and M. M. Rainey. Circle No. 2—Mesdames W, V. Tuggle, M. G. Edwards, E. P. Staples, J, M. Gooden, G. C. Nunn, S. A. Nunn, H. P. Chap man, C. I. Ogletree, E. F. Bar field, Felix Daniel, E. Stanley Smith, W. M. Gibson, W. F. Winchell, Clyde Gurr, H. U. Gor dy, A. H. Lawler, Watt Boler, W. W. Gray, W. F. Norwood, Eby Holtzclaw, Freeman Cabero, W. T. Middlebrooks, Minnie iCouey, U. M. Stripling, Eva I Spencer, B. H. Andrew Sr., J.H, 1 Short, L. M. Paul Sr., Francis {Nunn, W. C. Huggins, W. P. Brown, and B. H. Andrew Jr.; land Miss Anne Woodard, i Circle No. 3—Mesdames R. E. j Ogletree, C. E. Andrew, C. H. j Tucker, Wilson Martin J. Y. !Greene, J. L. Beavers, W. E. i Marshall, Eugene Smith, J. B. [Smith, R, E. Smith, R.E. Brown, ! W. C. Jones, Sam Houser, F, M. I Houser, A. M. Anderson Jr., H, iE. Evans Sr., H. E. Evans Jr., ! Drew Harris, Joe Mitchell, Avery I Lee, M. M. Dean, Richard Horn, ; Homer Hall, Albert S k e 11 i e, Frank King, Lizzie Connell, Floyd Tabor, Robert Tuggle, Pas chal Muse, Wordna Gray, and C. E. McLendon; and Misses j Polly McLendon and Nell C. Rogers, and Mrs, R. H. Howard. I SOIL CONSERVATION NEWS By W. J. CAMPBELL i We hope to have several peach orchards set out on the contour this winter. In the past some of our most severe erosion has tak ; en place in the orchards. Planting an orchard on the contour on ter raced land will stop the erosion | hazzard and, believe it or not, ; ! the trees can be worked both around and up and down the hill. Farmers planning to plant their new orchards on the con tour are; Bill Felton, T. W. Hooks, and the Southern Fruit Farm. If you want to know those who think kudzu, lespedeza, and j winter cover crops aren’t worth I the trouble to get them estab lished just stop in any country store and you will hear them griping about the price of cattle. I Some people are making fortunes 1 from cattle, but they have good [pastures and their chief concern lis how much feed they can get ja calf to eat instead of how little I he will stay alive on. | i W. E. ANDREWS DIES William Edward Andrews, 69, | died suddenly at his home at ! Kathleen at 8:15 a. m. Monday, | December 4. i He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Bertha Bragg; two sons, W. H. Andrews of Hape viiie and G. F. Andrews of Fort Valley; two daughters, Mrs.C. E. Britt of Kathleen and Mrs. W.A. Walling of Fort Valley; eight grandchildren; five brothers, J. M. of Musella, J. W. of Roberta, L. R. and Bascom of Montezuma and T. C. of Forsyth, and one sister, Mrs. Ed Ward of New Aibany, Ind. Mr. Andrews had been a dea con of the Beaver Creek Primi tive Baptist Church for the past 20 years. Funeral services were held at II a. m. Wednesday at the Pleasant Hill Primitive Baptist church, Warner Robins, with Elder W. H. Hancock and Elder George Riley Hunt officiating. Interment was in the church , cemetery with Watson and Whip, pie, funeral directors, in charge. ANNOUNCEMENTS j The Baptist W.M.S. will meet at the church Monday, Dec. 11, 3 p. m. The Sunbeams will meet at the same time. The W. S. will go from their meeting to the Methodist tea at 4 p. m. The Wesleyan Service Guild will meet Thurs., Dec. 14, 7:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs. T. C. Rogers with Miss Louise Houser as co-hostess. Tfie Perry P. T. A. will meet at the Perry school Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 3p. m. A Christmas pa geant will be presented by the Fifth grade under the direction of the teacher, Miss Dorothy Jones. 'CONSERVATION WORK MUST I BE REPORTED TO AAA OFFICE * I Farmers in Houston county who have carried out conserva tion practices under the 1944 ag ricultural conservation program were urged this week by E. W. Traylor, county administrative officer of the Agricultural Ad justment Agency, to report prac tices as soon as possible. January 15, 1945 is the closing date for reporting' performance, Mr. Traylor continued, but he urged farmers who have com pleted all practices for 1944 to report them by or before the closing date “since funds will not be available to pay producers reporting after that date.” Some of the practices for which farmers can earn credit, according to the administrative officer, are using phosphate, bas ic slag or limestone; growing ! winter legumes or small grains; I growing and leaving on land les- pedeza, cowpeas, soybeans, vel ! vet beans or crotalaria; setting kudzu, planting sericea lespedeza or vegetable waterways; con structing broad base terraces, drainage ditcher or contour farm ing for the first time; cleaning up, seeding or sodding pastures with Bermuda grass or mowing pastures: discing or plowing per ennial legumes or grasses and harvesting such seed as lespede- j za, crotalaria, vetch, blue lupine, carpet grass, millet and sudan grass, Dallis grass and clover. “To receive credit in 1944 for using phosphate, basic slag or 1 limestone,” Mr. Traylor con tinued, “it must be applied to | the land before December 31. Dirt j moving operations or terraces and dams must be completed during 1944 if payment is to be made.” MUDDY, BLOODY MEN Every American ought to do at least one hour of combat duty — infantry style. That’s not a practical idea and we know it. But until a man has done a doggie’s job he sim ply doesn’t know the score. He doesn’t know how danger punishes the human nervous sys tem. He can’t imagine what it’s like to creep down a street of empty houses wondering if they’re really as empty as they look. Hearing window shades flap and doors creak and expect ing the crack of a Karbinger or the burp of a Jerry MG —the last sound on earth. He doesn’t know how much guts it takes to move forward a yard, a foot, an inch. How a second can seem a year and a minute an eternity. Until he’s lived and fought in the mud and blood, he can’t realize what an all-time miracle a doughboy is. To stick in there day after day after day after day after day. And night after night after night after night af ter night. Until then, a worker can’t un derstand what a crime it is to let production slow down. Until then, a soldier can’t un derstand what a murderous thwig he does when he peddles supplies needed, up front. Until then, War Department officials can’t attach enough im portance to combat duty in ad ministering its demobilization plan. Nor can they know the inequality of the present system of special pay and privilege for some —with just a few extra dol lars a month for the man in the mud. Until then, the nation can’t realize —as it cheers the greatest backfield of the greatest team in history—the job being done by the muddy, bloody men of the line. —Stars And Stripes. A bunch of seven turnips weighing 21 lbs, was brought to the Home Journal office Monday by S. M. Sinyard of'Sugar Hill” community in Houston county. Mr. Sinyard says he hasl>2 acres of turnips just like these. The turnips were tender and not pithy and the greens very edible, too, as well as being the largest and best shaped bunch of tur nips ever seen by the writer. The Houston County Singing Convention will meet at the j Houston Factory Baptist church, j Dec. 10, at 2 o’clock. Everybody is invited to attend. CROP & LIVESTOCK GOALS ANNOUNCED Georgia farmers were called upon this week by the State's agricultural leaders to make the largest possible contribution to the Nation’s war effort in 1945 by producing large amounts of food, feed and fiber and live stock.and livestock products. Meeting in Athens, representa- * lives of all agricultural agencies in the State and officials of the War Food Administration adopt ed 1945 crop and livestock pro duction goals calling for “sub stantially” the same amount of farm products as was produced this year. The cotton acreage goal was set at 1,450,000 acres, an in crease of four percent over 1944’s indicated production, while the goal for peanuts was set at 1,- 225.000 planted alone and 1,000,- 000 acres to be picked and threshed, a reduction of four per cent from this year’s indicated production. The ffue-curcd to bacco goal will be 94,000 acres, approximately the same' as this year’s acreage. Livestock goals call for 1,115,- 000 head of cattle and calves, the same as this year’s, with 373,000 milk cows, an increase of two percent, set as the number to be milked during the year. Broiler production goals are the same as for last year, while a ten percent decrease has been set for the number of hens and pullets on farms. The goal for sows to far row in spring was set at 221,000, a four percent decrease, from 1944 indicated totals. The goals call for an increase of 69 percent in soybeans for beans, or a total of 22,000 acres. In small grains, the wheat goal was set at 275,000 acres, a 13 percent increase, and oats at 815.000 acres, an increase of 16 percent. The goal for lespedeza seed was set at 61,000 acres and for blue lupine for seed was increas ed to 4,400 acres. MATERNAL DEATHS DECREASE Maternal deaths, those result ing from cadses pertaining to child-birth, have decreased 57 per cent in the past twenty year s, according to State Health Department report. There were 303 maternal deaths in Georgia last year, in comparison with 708 in 1924. Despite the shortage of physi -1 cians and nurses and the large I crop of babies, Georgia’s mater nal mortality rate was only 3.9 per 1,000 live births in 1943, The rate for the United States as a whole reached an all time low of 2.1. The maternal death rate among colored women is still high, the health bulletin shows. There ■ were 153 deaths among Negro mothers last year, or 5.4 per 1.000 live births. Hospitalization for mothers at confinement has increased from 50 per cent in 1939 to 70 per cent in 1943. “Further decided improve ment in maternal mortality awaits extension of adequate medical care and public health facilities to all areas in the State,” Dr. T. F. Abercrombie, state health director, said. Eighty-five Georgia counties have established health centers where mothers can go for ex amination and instruction on the proper care of themselves and their children, according to the health department report. Sulfa drugs have proven es pecially potent in saving mater nal lives that might otherwise have been lost to infection, the bulletin indicates. PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE Sunday School—10:15 a. m. Church Service—ll:3o a. m. Supply Pastor C. W. Frerking. Assistant Supply Owen Gumm. COTTON REPORT Census report shows that 2,011 bales of cotton were ginned in Houston county from the crop of 1944 prior to Nov. 14 as com pared with 2,558 bales for the I crop of 1943.