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VOL. LXXIII. No. 50
’44 WORK REPORTED
BY COUNTY AGENT!
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Soil conservation and improve-!
ment was the major project for
the year, sub-committee of
the over-all program planning
committee aided the County
Agent in developing and carry
ing out this activity. The mem
bers of this committee are S. W.
Hickson, chmn.; S. A. Nunn,and
F. H. Tabor.
The cooperation of the local
Kiwanis Club and Farm Bureau,
Soil Conservation Service and
AAA were secured in a county
wide campaign on soil building.
This was done through the offer
ing of $250.00 in prizes in a
Green Acres Contest to the farms
of the county planting the larg
est per cent of 1944 tilled land to
winter legumes and soil building
crops.
Available records indicate that
the farmers of the county have
greatly increased the planting of
soil building crops as result of
the work done in this campaign.
Farmers have planted the follow
ing materials: 90,000 lbs, blue
lupine, 22,000 lbs. vetch, 245,000
Austrian winter peas and several
thousand acres of oats to be turn
ed under for green manure crop
next spring. Practically every
land owner who operates his own
farm has entered wholeheartedly
in this movement to improve the
soils of the county. It is esti
mated that over 250 farms are
planting winter legumes and
other green manure crops on a
major portion of this cultivated
land.
Food and feed crops have re
ceived considerable attention.
Educational work along the lines
of each home producing an ade
quate supply has been emphasiz
ed in meetings, news articles,
and personal contacts by county
agent.
The work on livestock consist
ed in encouraging the purchase
of pure bred males, disease con
trol, sanitation and planning for
adequate feed and grazing crops.
About 25 pure bred bulls were
purchased by farmers of the
county and 15 pure bred boars.
Approximately 4,500 head of hogs
and 800 head of cows were treat
ed against contagious diseases.
One dipping vat was constructed
and there is a need for many
more, to give our beef cattle in
dustry a fair chance. Informa
tion and plans for developing
pastures were worked out with
approximately 15 farms.
Every white school in the
county was contacted and visited
and every boy and girl given an
opportunity to enroll in the fol
lowing projects; Corn, peanuts,
sweet potatoes, cotton, home
gardens, poultry, dairy cattle,
beef cattle and swine. A total
of 105 projects were started and
68 projects were completed.
The County Agent conducted a
farm labor program to aid farm
ers in harvesting of peaches and
peanuts. Prisoners of War were
secured. A total of 10,271 bush
els of peaches and 750 acres
of peanuts were harvested by
Prisoners of War.
In carrying out the above ac
tivities a total of 252 days time 1
was spent in working with adults
by County Agent, and 45 days
with 4-H Club Work. A total of i
292 different farms were visited!
with a total of of 723 visits. Aj
total of 1,032 calls relating to ex
tension work were made at of
fice and 989 telephone calls.
Fifty news articles were publish
ed and 1,583 bulletins distributed.
, Eleven training meeting for
adults were held with an atten
dance of 131. A total ,of 18
method demonstrations were con
ducted with an attendance of 87.
Four method demonstrations with
4-H club members were conduct
ed with an attendance of 82.
There are 94 members of
planning committees and sub
committees cooperating with
County Agent in carrying infor
mation and extension activities
to the people of the county.
W. T. Middlebrooks,
County Agent.
METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Church School—10:15 a. m.
Church Service, 11:30 a. m,,
and 7:30 p. m.
Young People’s Service, 6:00
p. m.
Rev, J. B. Smith, Pastor.
Houston Home Journal
iFREEZER-LOCKER PLANT
i COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT;
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| With the enthusiastic backing
j°f a large number of citizens of
the community, a committee has
been appointed to make every ef
fort to push plans for the build
ing of a Freezer-Locker and
meat-curing plant for Houston
county. This committee, headed
by W. T. Middlebrooks and com
posed of ten other represen ta
tives from all sections of the
county, met Monday evening and
began work on the project.
The organization will take the
form of a corporation capitalized
at $25,000, with the stock issued
at a par value of $lOO. C. E.
McLendon is chairman of the fi
nance committee and serving
with him are F. H. Tabor and
A. W. Pratt. Buying of stock
in this new corporation is open
to the public and although $ll,-
000 has already been subscribed,
there is still time for any person
desiring to enter their purchase
to list the same with one of the
committee listed above. It is
necessary for 80% of the stock
to be subscribed and the money
in hand before going to the
WPB for the necessary priorities,
so this must be pushed rapidly.
A goal of 350 lockers has been
set by the committee, these to
rent for $l5 per year each. The
committee for the rental of these
is headed by F. H. Tabor and in
cludes A. R. Talton, H. C.Taiton,
J. L. Davis, and W. W. Gray
It is necessary that 60% of the
locker space [be rented and the
money in hand before priorities
can be granted, but it appears
from the rush of those desiring
lockers that the full amount of
space will be rented in a very
short while. In addition to the
committee named here, those de
siring to rent lockers may con
tact W. T. Middlebrooks, G. F.
Nunn, Wyatt Kersey, W,E. Beck
ham, or any of the members of
the finance committee,
W. E. Beckham and Wyatt
Kersey compose the committee
to select a building site, and as
soon as this is done, plans and
specifications will be reviewed
and contractors interviewed for
I the installation of machinery and
equipment. Capacity and equip
ment will be provided for the
curing and aging of pork and
beef in addition to the lockers
for freezing and preserving of
food.
This is a conservation project;
it is a community project; back
it with your dollars, your inter
est, and enthusiasm.
BOND QUOTA PASSED
Houston county has passed its
quota in the 6th War Loan Drive,
buying $698,589 with a $514,000
quota. The E bond sales, $570,
069, topped the Ebond quota which
was $444,000, according to Mayo
Davis, chmn. 6th War Loan
Drive in Houston county.
J. P. Etheridge, chmn. 13th
War Bond Dist. of which Hous
ton is a part, reports $1,517,134
of bonds bought up to Tuesday
morning. Of this amount $889,-
533 were E bonds. The district
quota is $1,848,000 and E bond
quota, $1,200,000.
Mr. Davis and Mr. Etheridge
j urge the people of Perry and
1 Houston county to continue buy
iing bonds in December to help
the state of Georgia meet its
quota which has been met only
75 per cent to date.
The national quota of $14,000,-
000,000 has been met but the de
mand for more war materials is
greater since the quota was set. |
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1 WAR FUND REPORT
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j A check for $17.45 from the j
-1 Elko school (white) and the Shi j
; loh Baptist church (colored) j
, Tuesday brought the total county
'donations to the United War
'iFund to $2,429.75, which is
5 i570.25 short of the $2,500 quota.
Individuals and committees are
urged to turn in donations to W.
V. Tuggle, treasurer, before Jan.
, 1, in order to complete the coun
| ty’s quota.
CORSAGES FOR
CHRISTMAS
) Place your orders early
WATSON & WHIPPLE
PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1944
jP.H.S. BASKETBALL SPOTLIGHT
| By G. FRAHCIS NUNN
j Wading into the highly touted
Cochran five with a display of
guarding and shooting such as
they have not shown before this
season, the alert Perry Panthers
racked up their eleventh succes
sive victory of the season, and
probably the most welcome one
of the campaign thus far. Both
teams had been pointing for this
game after the terriffically close
affair they played over in Coch
ran some three weeks ago, and
for the first few minutes it look
ed as though the Cochran lads
had outpointed the locals,as they
jumped off to a 4-1 lead in less
time than it takes to tell it. Their
first goal was a beautifully ex
ecuted break that caught the
Panther defense off balance, and
then they worked the same play
again, but this time it took a
nice follow up shot to do the
trick as the first shot was well
guarded and missed. But the
Panthers caught on in a hurry
and put the well-known quietus
to that little party, and then
jumped off on a scoring spree of
their own, with Skellie, Bledsoe
and Pierce alternating on the
scoring ends of the passing at
tack.
As hard as they had to fight
for the actual point victory, the
game was really won three
nights before, when Capt. and
Mrs. Warren Lee, and Mr. and
Mrs. W. Avery Lee were hosts
to the team at a delightful steak
supper at Lee’s Cafe. Here a
solemn pledge was-exacted from
each Panther that he would con
tribute all he had toward grab
bing that game from Cochran
Friday night, and the boys sim
ply couldn’t go back on that
pledge. In addition to the lus
cious meal provided by those ex
cellent hosts, the boys together
with Coach and Mrs. Staples, Mr.
and Mrs. Cohen Walker, and
your humble reporter, were
treated to a most enjoyable, con
versational recountal by Capt.
Lee of some of his experiences in
the China-Burma-India theatre of
war, and were shown a few of
his interesting collections. From
the inspiration gained by listen
ing to a real soldier, and his ex
hortation to us of the home front
to continue to back the attack in
every way, all departed fired
with greater enthusiasm for
victory.
And so, though the Cochran
boys weren’t aware of it before
the game began, they soon learn
ed that they would have to se
lect another evening to gain re
venge for the defeat hung on
them in Cochran. The Holland
twins came billed as the biggest
attraction of the season,but Mar
shall and Wilson made their lives
.miserable by allowing them only
three field goals between them
for the whole game. Time after
time these guards charged thru
to break up pass plays or smoth
er shots, and each time one of
them would come out with the
ball, flash it to a forward and
away the offense would go for
I another goal. The final score,
37-19 was no ways close, but was
most satisfying to the fans, who
were especially delighted late in
the game when the second team
came in and also outscored the
opposition, as Clint Cooper sank
three beauties in quick succes
sion.
Perry made a clean sweep of
the evening as the B team open
ed with a win over the Cochran
B’s by a score of 14-13, and the
Athletic Club closed play by lick
ing the Cochran Field Cadets 34-
32 in a close hard-fought game.
This week, on Friday night at
j the local gym, the Panthers en
igage their old county rivals,Bon
aire. Fans can always look for
a good scrap between these two
teams, so be there for the fun.
The lineups:
PERRY 37
j Bledsoe • 11
Pierce 10
Skellie 9
| Wilson 0
Marshall 0
1 Cooper 6
Satterfield 0
Beavers 0
Whipple 0
COCHRAN 19
Holland, Bob 4
Holland, Bill 7
Owens
Peacock 3
Purser 0
Willis 5
GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS |
We, the Grand Jury sworn
the December Term of Houston
Superior Court, wish to make the
following presentments:
We have had for our consid
eration 54 bills of indictment and
have returned 47 true bills and 7
no bills.
The committee appointed to in
spect the Court House found the
building in awful shape and rec
ommend building a new one as
soon as possible.
The committee appointed to in
spect the County Jail made a fa
vorable report. The plumbing,
bedding, sanitary conditions and
building were in good order.
The committee appointed to in
spect the County's Work Camp
for prisoners found the camp in
good shape. They have on hand
the following: 23 hogs, 2 mules,
3 cows, 2 calves, 4 trucks, 3 trac
tors, 2 grading machines, about
900 bu. corn and a good supply of
potatoes and canned goods. They
have 19 prisoners in camp.
The above committee recom
mends that the Fagin’s Mi road
be ditched and the Grovania road
between Clinton Cooper’s and
Grovania should have top soil
put on it.
The committee appointed to in
spect the books of Sheriff, Clerk
of Court, Ordinary, Tax Collec
tor?, and Tax Receiver found the
books well kept, neat and up to
date.
We approve and recommend
for payment the bills of court of
ficers for services rendered this
body as follows;
To Tommie S. Hunt, Clerk of
Court, for issuing 249 Subpoenas
at 15c each for December Term,
1944, Houston Superior Court,
$37.35.
To C. C. Chapman, Sheriff, for
serving 249 Subpoenas at 50c
each, $124.50.
We approve and wish to thank
S. W. Hickson, County School
Supt. and C. E. Brunson, County
Clerk, for their reports.
We recommend that these pre
sentments be published in one is
sue of The Houston Home Jour
nal at a cost not exceeding $l5.
In taking leave of the Court
we wish to express our apprecia
tion to all Court Officers for the
courtesies extended us during
our deliberations.
Respectfully submitted this
6th day of December, 1944.
J. T. Overton, Foreman; Hugh
Lawson, Clerk; W. D. Henson,
C. L. Bennett, Marvin Dorsett,
D. L. Davidson, W. W. Fergu
son, W. C. McDowell, J.H. Lary,
B. J. Hunt, Sr.. W. P. Davis, T.
J. Nipper, W. T. Mobley, Felton
Norwood, C. A. McCraven, Hey
wood Murphey, M. L. Woodruff,
W. M. Gibson, C. B. Harper, J.
N. Cosey, J. E. Eason.
Georgia, Houston County.
In the Superior Court of said
County.
Let the above General Present
ments of the Grand Jury be re
ceived and recorded as provided
by law and published as therein
recommended.
This Dec, 6th, 1944.
Mallory C. Atkinson,
J. S. C. M. C.
Chas. H. Garrett,
Sol. Gen.
Georgia, Houston County,
I, Tommie S. Hunt, Clerk of
Superior Court of Houston Coun
ty, Georgia, do hereby certify that
the within and foregoing is a
true and correct copy of the
Grand Jury Presentments, as
same appears of record in this
office.
Witness my official signature
and seal of this Court.
This Dec. 11th, 1944.
Tommie S. Hunt. Clerk
Superior Court, Ho. Co. Ga.
AUXILIARY MEETS
The Auxiliary to the Robert
D. Collins Post, American Le
gion, held its December luncheon
meeting last Thursday at the Le
gion Home. Hostesses were
Mesdames B. H. Andrew Jr.,
Fby Holtzclaw, J. F. Bonner, R.
E. Smith, W. J. Cheek, and Ma
mie Winn. The president, Mrs.
Joe Mitchell, presided.
The Auxiliary voted to buy
$lOO E Bond and to assist in the
Bond Drive; also to donate $2O to
the Xmas fund of the Lawson
General hospital in Atlanta.
Plans were made for the en
tertainment of the community’s
young people during the holidays.
| MB. UNO MBS. GEO.T.HDNt'
I MM 50TB ANNIVEBSAHY
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. T. Hunt of
Kathleen, Rt. 1, will mark their
Golden Wedding day next Mon
day, having married on Dec. 18,
1894.
Mr. Hunt is the oldest sort of
the late Mr. and Mrs.J. B. Hunt.
Mrs. Hunt was the only daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Roberl
Stripling. These were pioneer
families and lived only one and
one-half miles apart.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunt were school
mates in their youth and were
childhood sweethearts.
On the afternoon of their mar
riage Mr. and Mrs. Hunt went
directly to their present home
and have lived there continuous
ly for fifty years. Their home
is just one and one-half miles
from their parental homes.
This couple has four children;
G. T. Jr., in service in England;
Robert, a pharmacist in Atlanta;
Lawrence, in service in France;
and Eunice at home —all of them
a credit to their honored parents.
Plans for entertaining their
friends on this occasion have
been annulled on account of the
war and their sons being over
seas,
Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are the old
est couple who were born and
reared in their community that
are now living there. The home
of this high type couple has been
a blessing to their community.
Mr. Hunt taught school in
Houston county for twelve years
and his wife taught five years.
Mr. Hunt will be remembered
by his older friends as “Plow
Boy,’’an assumed name, under
which he sent the local news
items from the old Heard neigh
borhood to the Home Journal,
having begun this at the age of
fifteen.
Mr. Hunt has made fifty-two
consecutive crops on his present
farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunt have the
love and esteem of numerous
relatives and friends in Houston
county who are extending them
heartiest congratulations on the
occasion of their fiftieth wedding
anniversary.
METHODIST W.S.C.S. MEETING
The Methodist Women’s Socie
ty of Christian Service observed
its annual Harvest Day social
Monday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. G. C. Nunn. The affair
was given this year in honor of
Mrs. J. B. Smith, wife of the
new pastor. Members of the
Baptist W. M. S., the Presbyte
rian Auxiliary, and the Wesleyan
Service Guild were invited to be
guests.
Forming the receiving line
were Mrs. G. W. Hicks, presi
dent W. S. C. S.; Mrs. G. C.
Nunn, vice-president; Mrs. C. P.
Gray, wife of the chmn. of the:
board of stewards; and the hon
oree. Receiving at the door was
Mrs. W. V. Tuggle, past-presi
dent of W. S. C. S.
Mrs Paschal Muse was chair
man of the entertainment com
mittee, Assisting her were Mes
dames W. T. Middlebrooks, S. A.
Nunn, W. C. Huggins, H. E.
Evans Jr., E. P. Staples, W. A.
Skellie, L. C. Walker, R, E.
Smith, J. F. Bonner, and C. C.
Chapman.
The attractive decorations
were arranged by Mrs. B. H. An
drew Jr., Mrs. C. E, McLendon,
and Mrs. W. F. Norwood.
Blue and silver were used in
the dining room and green and
red in the living room. White
camellias and silvered foliage in
a white epergne centered the
dining table which was overlaid
with a light blue linen cloth. A
silver coffee service, presided
over by Mrs. A. P. Whipple, was
at one end of the table and a
platter of individual cakes mark
ed with Christmas favors was at
the other end.
Mrs. J. M. Gooden and Mrs.
Mayo Davis rendered piano se
lections. Mrs, Joe Mitchell and
Mrs. R. E. Smith sang Christ
mas carols.
Mrs. Smith, the honoree, wore
a corsage presented her by the
Service Guild.
The W. S. C. S. donations on
Harvest Day overpaid the 1943
pledge of $6OO.
ESTABLISHED 1870
LARGE CROPS GROWN
|BY GEORGIA FARMERS
The aggregate value of Geor
gia cash crops produced in 1944
will be larger than in 1943, Di
rector Walter S. Brown of the
Georgia Agricultural Extension
Service, revealed this week, de
claring that Georgia farm fam
ilies have met the challenge
given them at the first of the
year by producing another large
crop despite tremendous handi
caps.
Summarizing 1944 production,
the Extension Director pointed
out that the peanut crop pro
duced and harvested this year
was the largest in the history of
the State. Estimates indicate
the production of peanuts picked
and threshed will be approxi
mately 392,000 tons, which is 9,-
000 tons more than last year.
He asserted that the acreage
planted to cotton this year was
the smallest since 1871, but the
average yield per acre is the
highest in the history of the
State, “While the total value of
the cotton crop this year may be
smaller than in 1943,” Mr. Brown
continued, “the profit per acre
probably will be larger than at
any time in recent years.”
The 1944 tobacco crop in Geor
gia was the second largest on
record, being almost 25,000,000
pounds larger than last year’s,
Mr. Brown said, and “the in
crease in the value of the tobacco
crop is more than double the loss
in value of the 1944 cotton crop.”
There was, however, he point
ed out. a decline in the produc
tion of corn this year, chiefly
caused by the unfavorable
weather conditions. This loss
will be offset to some extent by
the largest oat crop in history.
The wheat crop harvested in the
spring was the largest since 1900
and the per acre yields of oats
and wheat were the highest on
record. Th e hay crop, while
smaller than last year, was above
average,
“Georgia farmers produced
this tremendous crop in spite of
shortages of labor, machinery
and supplies and unfavorable
weather,” Mr. Brown pointed
out, “This was done through
hard work and splendid coopera
tion by and among farm people,
splendid help of volunteer people
and the assistance of German
prisoners of war.”
Through October, the Exten
sion Director declared, county
agents had made more than 145,-
000 placements of workers on
Georgia farms. About 100.000
of these were non-farm individ
uals, 5,000 were prisoners of war
and 350 were Bahamians.
“Farmers tackled the job of
producing and harvesting their
crops with an out standing
spirit,” Mr, Brown asserted.
“By swapping labor, exchanging
machinery and using volunteer
workers from towns they plant
ed. cultivated and harvested the
crops.”
LIBRARY NOTES
Most timely is, “The Bible and
the Common Reader,” by Mary
Ellen Chase. This distinguished
author has written a great book.
It not only reveals the great per
sonalities of the Bible but also
stresses its beauty. It is a help
ful answer to those who wish to
know and understand the great
est of all books. Miss Chase is
especially known for her latest
novel, “Windswept,” and her au
tobiography, “A Goodly Fellow
ship.”
Ernie Pyle has endeared him
self to both soldiers and civilians
with his intimate and human re
ports of our boys. “Brave
Men,” is the story of this re
porter’s experiences with our
men abroad.
Two well known English au
thors have had novels published
this fall, “The Green Years,” by
A. -I. Cronin, and “Hard Facts,”
by Howard Stringer.
“Tell Me About God,” by
Mary Alice Jones, is a great aid
to parents in answering the most
important questions children ask.
Library open every afternoon
except Wednesday from 1:30 to
6:30 p. m.
Verniece Beavers, Librarian.
The Sorosis club will meet
Thursday (Dec. 14) 4 p. m. at
the home of Mrs. Paschal Muse.
