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VOL. LXXIII. No. 52
PLANS FOR FREEZER-LOCKER
PLANT MAKING PROGRESS
Plans for the local freezer-lock
er and meat curing plant con
tinue to move forward and by
Friday of this week, the Locker
Sales committee will be ready to
give receipts for locker rentals
to those desiring to rent a locker
compartment. At a meeting in
Perry last week, Mr. Glenn of
the State Extension Service and
Mr. Waters, Mgr. and operator
of the Locker and curing plant
at Reynolds, Ga. were present,
and each spoke and answered
questions as to the various phas
es of construction and operation
of such a plant.
Mr. Glenn stated that with the
current government emphasis on
conservation of food, and par
ticularly the conserving by the
people of the products which
they themselves raise,he thought
that priorities for the construc
tion and installation of such a
plant would be readily granted.
Mr. Waters pointed out that
though the Reynolds plant had
not been in operation very long,
yet it is rendering a much valued
service to the community andi
showing a satisfactory margin of j
profit to its backers.
C.E, McLendon, Finance Com
mittee Chairman for the local
enterprise, announced that the
sale of stock was progressing
very satisfactorily with more
than fourteen thousand dollars
already in hand. Attendants at
the meeting who had not already
done so were then given an op
portunity to subscribe for stock
and an additional seven thousand
dollars was pledged and paid in. {
Since that time a few other sub
scriptions have come in, but the i
latest word from the chairman is!
that there is still a small amount!
of stock available to would-be j
purchasers—about 25 or 30 shares j
at $lOO.OO each.
For those who wish to rent
lockers a large committee was
set up covering every
section of the county. The ren
tal fee was set at $15.00 per year
assuming that the usual size
lockers are obtainable, and the
rental is payable in advance toi
the committeemen as soon as the
receipts are available.' A large
number of orders for lockers is
already in hand, and the demand
increases as the public becomes
more conscious of the effort be
ing placed behind this enterprise.
So don’t delay in seeing and pay
ing one of the following men for
your locker: F. H. Tabor, chmn.;
A. R. Talton, H. C. Talton, J. L.
Davis, W. W. Gray, R. R. Pratt,
W. N. Johnson, J. E. Eason,
Doyle McElhenny, Glea Gray,
and W. K. Whipple. You may
also call W. T. Middlebrooks or
Francis Nunn for additional in
formation.
FAR ASSISTED
BY INTERNAL REVENUE MEN
Representatives of the Inter
nal Revenue office will visit Per
ry on Jan. 4-5-6 for the purpose
of assisting Houston county
farmers in the preparation of
1944 income tax returns. These
representatives will be at the
Perry Post Office from 9 a. m. to
4:30 p. m. on Jan. 4-5-6.
Every farmer who has gross
income of $5OO or more is requir
ed to file an income tax return.
Gross income from farming is
held to be the difference between
the total amount of farm pro
ducts produced for sale and the
cost of production of such farm
products.
In order that assistance may
be given to the greatest number
of farmers, it is imperative that
every farmer requesting assis
tance have his information as
sembled in the following manner;
Each farmer should have a state
ment prepared showing his total
income from each class of farm
product or other sources for the
entire year of 1944. He should
also have a statement prepared
showing the total amount of each
class of expense and deductions,
such as fertilizer, labor, seed,
feed, etc. Each class of expense
should be itemized but should
show the total amount of such
expense for the entire year.
. This visit on Jan. 4-5-6, 1945,
? s arranged primarily for assist
ing farmers and at a later date
Deputy Collectors will visit here
Houston Home Journal
P.H.S. BASKETBALL SPOTLIGHT
j| By G. FRANCIS NUNN
In the two weeks since your
*1 reporter brought the antics of
j the red hot Perry Panthers up to
Gdate, those fast traveling cats
\ have added three more victories
i to their string, which now stands
’ at fourteen. Two of these wins
1 were hard fought affairs over
the toughest opposition of the
year, as they licked Cochran
1 1 23-9 and Byron 29-28, each on his
home court. The other victory
“ was a mild affair with the intra
| county rivals from Bonaire in
which the second team played as
much as the first and the issue
1 was never in doubt.
The game in Cochran was a
1 tight defensive match all the
1 way, with Marshall and Wilson
barring the way under the goal
; to the Cochran boys almost com
-1 pletely, and Skellie taking charge
' of the offense with 13 points.
Fast all the way, and with Coch
-1 ran always seeking an opportuni
ty to strike, it was still Perry’s
1 ball game as they ran up a good
lead in the first half and then
bottled up Cochran’s sharpshoot
ers to run out the win.
1 Byron’s Flashes were even
j tougher competition, mainly be
cause they are never willing to
admit that they are beaten.
Fighting back in the last half
after being behind up to ten
points in the first half, they tied
the score with Jess than two
minutes to play and then had the
spectators on the edge of the
benches as they missed two long
shots and a foul throw, while
Perry vyas scoring a free throw 7
■ for their margin of victory. The
[game opened with Rubber Pierce
j dashing in and out of the Byron
defense for six points in the first
I few minutes to place the Pan
thers in a commanding spot.
[Then Bledsoe aimed and fired
tvvice from the sidelines, and
with Wilson running loose and
shooting from all angles, it look
ed like a Panther romp. T.Mar
shall had Howard, the Flashes
main offensive star, well in hand,
but somebody let the bespectacl
ed Murdock roam at will around
the foul line zone, and he kept
! Byron in the game the first half.
Then in the later stages, Howard
and White broke loose for sev
eral nice shots and the battle was
on. Never giving up, always
confident of a breakthrough, the
Byron lads conquered one Pan
ther, then another, and but for
some terriffic under goal guard
ing in the last couple of minutes,
would have sacked that game up
after trailing the whole way.
After seeing the game in By
ron, this correspondent feels con-1
strained to urge the Perry fans
to strive toward the highest de
gree of sportsmanship both at
home and when visiting. It is.
hard to realize how much one or
two unthinking people can affect
the feelings of other people for
their town and community. When
we entertain teams and fans
from other places, the least we
as fans can do is to give them a
welcome and treat them as we
should like to be treated when 1
we visit them. We want ourl
teams to fight hard to win at all
times, but we also want our fans
Ito fight even harder that those
; who come as visitors and specta
i tors shall go away feeling that
they would like to return in the
i future.
DEATH OF G. C. WATSON
Grover Cleveland Watson, 50,
1 prominent farmer, died Dec. 11
’ at his home in Grovania. He had
! been serving on the jury in Per
ry and his death was sudden,
presumably from a heart attack. I
' Mr. Watson is survived by his!
■iwife, the former Miss Willie!
■“jMaude Scarborough; one son,
’ j Candler S. Watson, U. S. Navy;!
’ i six daughters, Mrs. M, P. Gou-i
• mas, Macon; Misses Melba andj
j Marjorie Watson, Macon; Misses
1 Jacquelin, Sybil and Louise Wat-!
1 son, Grovania; three sisters, Mrs. I
• John Hancock, Macon; Mrs. Ebb,
Fitzpatrick, Carrollton; Mrs.
‘ Clem House, Atlanta.
1 Funeral services were held at
1 Watson and Whipple Funeral
1 Home in Perry Wednesday 3 p.
j m. Dec. 13, with the Rev, Will
1 Greene officiating, Burial fol
-1 lowed in Bonaire.
, for the purpose of assisting tax
• payers in general in the prepara
; tion of returns which may be
} filed on or before March 15, 1945.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1944
I - -MINETEEN FORTY- FIVE -
• ‘ / I \what you will of it. It opens up to you
I \ new opportunitles,and perhaps new sorrows.
/ \ 'X° k\ m PeSsessses vision, 1945 comes~^HtheLjiigliest ; the
/ tjiat has flowing into our port of~hope^__
/ tl\ose who will look morirnfully into the face of the New
/ X® ar ' \ ere those will say that the world is still in the
/ midst of a terrifying dream. But they'are the unfortunates
without vision.
in our own hearts, each of us knows that the world could and
should be a better place in which fd hye. We know that war has
no palace in a gciod worlcbßut we that tyranny, injustice
and hatred always lead to N war. It is our job to see that-
of evil are forever out.
America is a mighty nation, and A.merica is no more than a mul
tiplication of our owr\ community. Each of us must have the vision
to live'pnderstandingly with our neighbors. We must not only be
neighbors, we must be'good neighbors. Then the insidious forces
l which lead to violence have no soil in which to grow. They are as
seed cast upon the rock.
i H Our own community is proud of its past achievements. The past
''p? years have taught us that we can do what we will in our own
37 minds. The job we have done in the past gives us the courage and
i fortitude to face the future unafraid. We know that no problem is
t without a solution.
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So it is with a spirit ol genuine hope, a feeling of humility and a
j j—l prayer of thanks that this newspaper wishes each df you
|\ A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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New Year’s Eve
Festive Occasion
For Native Scots
Christmas never aroused much
enthusiasm in Scotland—but on New
Year’s eve the Wassail bowl goes
around, filled with savory liquid nos
talgically fragrant.
Floating atop the Wassail bowl, '
apples stir memories of the “apple- j
howling” when boys switched the 1
trunks of fruit trees petitioning “a
good howling crop”: somehow, the
“lamb’s wool” (as the decoction of
the Wassail bowl is often called)
seems reminiscent of young folks
rushing to the nearest spring at the
stroke of 12 to drink the “cream of
the well”—the first one so doing,
might expect good luck during the
ensuing year.
Handsel Monday—the Monday aft
er New Year’s, is traditionally the
“big Day” for Scotch boys and girls:
and, in addition to being the Scotch
day of gift-giving, it is a day of
feasting and gaiety.
Small wonder, that families and
friends gather on New Year’s eve to
“Drink a cup of kindness yet
For Auld Lang Syne.”
Tell Me an Indian
New Years Story
The ceremonial for the snow has
passed, when enemies are forgiven
and harsh words forgotten, as a new
trail has been blazed for all through
the New Year’s festivities.
The story-telling grandmother has
taught the ancient chants and cus
toms through the beads of the
strings of historic wampum; but now
| she again has time to entertain the
| children.
Gathered around her lodge-fire,
they plead for another story with
their bright eyes and shrill voices.
To satisfy them, she tells an ancient
legend about the clouds.
“Long moons ago when the world
was first made, the sky at win
tertime was cloudless much as it is
on clear midsummer days. The
1 ground was covered with white snow
and the trees, except the pines, stood
bare. The cold wind whistled around
the bark cabins; and with a cloud
less sky, everything above and be
low looked dreary.
“The children, too, missed the
green leaves and changing colors
| over the landscape and they gave a
1 wish that the sky might have clouds
j now and then. It is true, dark-gray,
j fierce-looking clouds came in great
| masses and covered all the sky and
I,let down snowflakes to amuse the
i’children. But the children als ( o
I wished for bright clouds and the old
j bear in the sky heard their wishes.
“So the old bear blew his moist
1 breath into the heavy clouds and
I broke them up; he even made
j humps in some of them, and held
1 on to the corners of others, until
i when they passed over the village,
each cloud had a different shape,
some like bears, some like wild cats,
some like hills and even some like
funny people. Ever afterward, the
clouds took these strange shapes
to bring smiles and imagination to
all children in midwinter.”—Dr.
E. A. Bates, Cornell.
Chemistry Leads in Research
Chemical is the leading American
industry in scientific research,
. r
Happy New Year
r.- • " '
This charming young daughter of
a marine corporal is all set to wel
come the advent of 1945. Judging
1 from her attentive 16ok, she is wait
ing only for the 12 o’clock whistles
heralding the arrival of the new
year.
Traditional New Year’s
Gifts Were Sacred
The Druids distributed branches
of the sacred mistletoe, cut with
peculiar ceremonies, as New Year’s
gifts to the people and the Saxons
observed the day with gifts and fes
tivals.
The Roman custom of taking gifts
to the emperor was introduced into
England as early as the time of
Henry 111. Queen Elizabeth is sup
posed to have supplied herself with
her jewels and wardrobe almost en
tirely from these gifts.
As late as 1092 the English nobility
were accustomed every year to send |
i to the king a purse containing gold.
| Under the Tudors and the Stuarts
I it was the habit of all classes to
j give presents to friends with the
best wishes for the New Year.
Ladies received presents of gloves
or pins which were then expensive.
Sometimes the gifts were wrapped
in money and from this practice we
have the term “pin money.”
President’s Reception
It has been the custom from the
beginning of the Republic for the
President of the United States to
welcome the New Year by holding
a reception open to the general pub
lic.
On the first New Year’s day after
his inauguration President Washing
ton opened his home to receive the
people. Throughout the seven years
which Washington lived in Phila
delphia as the capital of the nation,
he continued this custom.
PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR
Dear Lord, I ask Thee
For this New Year, ,
An extra gift of courage
My little trials to bear,
I ask not for success;
For wealth or lame or power;
/ ask for added faith
To live life, hour by hour.
Give me kindly thought. Lord,
To use for charity.
I want no gold to give,
I’ll spend kind thoughts for Thee.
—Ruth Richwine Smith.
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English New Year
The English New Year celebra
< tion was changed from December
25 by William the Conqueror, be
i cause he was crowned on January 1.
New Year’s Day Ante
i dates the Birth of
Christ by 452 Years
The celebration of New Years on
January 1 began in 452 B. C., and
therefore, contrary to logical reason
ing, had nothing whatsoever to do
i with the birth of Christ.
The ancient Roman calendar be
gan in, and with, the month of
March: there were ten months, the
last six of which were named Quin
tilis, Scxtilis, September, October,
November, and December—or, the
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth
and Tenth months respectively. Nu
ma added two months, January and
February, placing the former at the
beginning of the year and February
at the end. In 452 B. C., February
was placed between January and
March: thus establishing the order
of months as of today. The ancient
calendar year did not correspond to
the solar year and by the time the
days of Julius Caesar rolled around
the actual and calendar equinoxes
were months apart: a situation which
Caesar set out to remedy.
Caesar’s astronomers and calen
dar experts fixed the calendar year
at 3C5 days—and because they esti
mated the solar year as of 365V4
days—an extra day was to be add
ed every fourth year. This Julian
calendar was effective, by decree
of Caesar, on January 1, 40 B. C.
Actually, the earth goes around
the sun in 305 days, 5 hours, 48 min
utes, and 40 seconds: and by 1582
A. D., the Julian calendar was 10
days behind the sun. Pope Gregory
XIII remedied the situation by or
dering that the calendar play leap
frog and the intervening days be
tween October 5 and October 15,
1582, were lost forever,
j In order to prevent repetitions of
the sun running away from the cal
endar and vice versa, Pope Gregory
decided that a leap year should be
omitted now and then: hence only
those years divisible by four—ex
clusive of years numbering the cen
turies —should have 380 days, and
the century-marking years shall be
leap years only if divisible by four
after the ciphers have been omitted.
The Gregorian calendar has been
officially adopted in most countries
of the civilized world: however,
many creeds and peoples still cele
»brate their religious and traditional
festivals in accordance with ancient
calendars.
Pre-Christian Roman inaugurated
the new year by offering sacrifices
to the gods, exchanging greetings,
and bestowing gifts. During the
early Christian centuries, New
Year’s festivities persisted and be
came so boisterous that the faithful
were forbidden to participate there
in.
After December 25 had been es
tablished as the day of nativity, the
church made January 1 a religious
festival honoring the circumcision of
Jesus: the day being thus observed
in the Roman church since 487, and
in the Anglican church since 1549.
llioci.i I.IIV
The maximum life of insects ia
considered to be 17 years.
Round Robin
A round robin is a written peti
tion, memorial protest, or the like,
the signature to which are made in
a circle so as not to indicate who
■limed it first.
ESTABLISHED 1870
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AGRICULTURAL CENSUS TO
BE TAKEN IN JANUARY, 1945
The 1945 Census of Agricul
ture will be started on or about
the first of January, and will be
one of the most important cen
suses ever taken by the United
States Government, The Agri
cultural census is nothing new,
the first census having been tak
en in 1840,and periodically there
after. This information will
definitely not be used for tax
purposes or personal gain. It will
affect and be of great help to our
returning War Veterans, as well
as our Congress and each and
every Farm Head should willing
ly co-operate with our selected
men and women taking this
census.
The general purpose of taking
the census of Agriculture is to
show the acreage of farmland,
the acreage of the principal
crops, the number and value of
domestic animals on the farms
and ranges of the country, and
the characteristics of the farm
population.
All this information will be
kept in the strictest of confi
dence and will be taken by men
and women selected by Govern
ment Authorities who will be
given Oath of Office and will not
be allowed to divulge any infor
mation to other persons but the
United States Government.
Therefore, all farmers are ask
ed to willingly and open-minded
ly cooperate in securing this in
formation when Government-se
lected men and women call on
you.
The Department of Commerce,
Bureau of the Census, opened its
new offices in Americus recently
in the Empire Building, Lamar
Street.
SOIL CONSERVATION NEWS
By W. J. CAMPBELL
I
This is the time of year to take
stock of your terraces. We have
a lot of fields on which new ter
races should be built, but the
fields that are washing the most
are those that have poor ter
races already established. Good
terraces where needed are a nec
essary evil, but poor terraces are
an erosion hazzard. It takes a
lot n f dirt to make a good ter
race and it takes the most on the
eroded places where it is hardest
to get.
If your terraces broke last
spring during the heavy rains,
they should be built back and
checked for effective height and
channel capacity. I will be glad
to check them with you when
you have time.
lIHOOISTJNNQONCEMENTS
Church School--10:15 a. m.
Church Service, 11:30 a. m,,
and 7:30 p. m.
Young People’s Service. 0:00
p. m.
Rev, J. B, Smith, Pastor.
BAPTIST HIDUNCIiTii
Sunday School, 10:15 a. m.
Morning Worship Service 11:30.
Training Union. 6:30 p. m.
Evening Worship 7:30 p. m.
Prayer Service Wednesday,
7:30 p, m.
Rev. J. A. levy, Pastor,
PRESBYTERIAN ME
Sunday School—10:15 a. m.
Church Service—ll:3o a. m.
Supply Pastor —
C. W. Frerking.
Assistant Supply
Owen Gumra.
COTTON REPORT
Census report shows that 2,048
bales of cotton were ginned in
Houston county from the crop of
1944 prior to Dec. 1, as compared
with 2,628 bales for the crop
of 1943.
The meeting of the Intermed
iate Girls Auxiliary was held
Dec. 18, at the home of Sarah
and Ann Ivey. A Christmas tree
was enjoyed. Miss Annis Jean
NeSmith sang a Christmas carol.
Delightful refreshments were
served.
