Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, March 08, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LXXIV. No. 11 RED CROSS DRIVE IN ! HOUSTON ORGANIZED! § I The 1945 Red Cross War Fund! Drive was launched in Houston county Tuesday at the luncheon meeting of the Perry Kiwanis club. Three representatives from the Macon Chapter Red Cross, of which Houston county is an auxiliary, were speakers. They were Roy Neal. chmn. Macon chapter: Eden Taylor Jr., chmn. Red Cross War Fund Drive; Miss Thena Hathorn, executive secre tary Macon chapter. These speakers told of the magnificent job in the war effort the American Red Cross has done at home and abroad. Miss Hathorne said that the Red Cross goes with the service man where ever he goes and is responsible for his morale, recreation, and comfort. Mr. Neal announced W that a paid Red Cross worker would be placed in Houston coun ty at an early date and told of the splendid canteen work being done at Robins Field. Mr. Tay lor stated that Houston’s quota for the Drive to be conducted during the month of March was $5,000. Mrs, John L. Hodges introduc ed these speakers and Mrs. L. H, Gilbert, representative of the Sorosis club, which is sponsoring the Red Cross Drive jointly with the Kiwanis club. Mrs. Hodges who was asked by Red Cross of ficials in Macon to obtain a chair man for Houston county for the Red Cross Drive presented Eric P. Staples as the chairman and expressed appreciation for his services in this emergency. Mr. Neal praised the work of G. W. Rhodes of Perry who served as chairman of the Red Cross in Houston county for sev eral years. Mr. Rhodes resigned recently because of the press of business duties. G. F. Nunn, club president, ap pointed the following committee from the Kiwanis to work with Mr. Staples: F. M. Houser, W. E. Beckham, Mayo Davis, C. E, Andrew, J. P. Etheridge, W. T. j Middlebrooks, S. W. Hickson, Sam A. Nunn, and C. E. Mc- Lendon. Mr. Etheridge was J named secretary and treasurer of the Drive. Committees Named Following the luncheon, an or ganization meeting of the Red Cross committee was held. Chmn. Staples named the following chairmen of groups: Business District of Perry —W. E.Beckham, chmn.; Mayo Davis, C. E. Andrew, F. M. Hbuser, C. E. McLendon, and Lewis Harper. Residential Section of Perry— Mrs. L. H. Gilbert and Sorosis club members. County Schools —S.W,Hickson. Corporations—Sam A. Nunn. Agricultural Group—W.T.Mid dlebrooks. Penn-Dixie Employees—G. W. Rhodes. Colored Group s —Supervisor Helen Martin, Mart Pierce, and A. D. Redmond. Warner Robins —Junior Cham ber of Commerce. Centerville—R.F. Scarborough. , Heard Di s t.—Mrs. W. D. Kersey. Bonaire —Mrs. Geo. Collins, Hayneville—Mrs. L. M. Mc- Cormick. Henderson—Mrs. B. H. New berry. Elko—Mrs. J. N. Buff. Grovania —Mrs, Doyle McEl henny, Kathleen —Mrs. A. R. Talton The business and residential sections of all the communities in Houston county will be canvassed next week, March 12-17 in an in tensive effort to raise the coun ty’s $5,000 quota. the Theatres in Perry and earner Robins will receive con tributions for the Red Cross the . v 'eek of March 19-24. Pastors of all churches are ask ed to present the Red Cross cause next Sunday, March 11, at church services. Houston Home Journal !j.w7bloodworth has two I LOCAL BILLS MADE LAWS I | ... ■ , J. W. Bloodworth, representa ! Live of Houston county in the Georgia House of Representa tives, introduced two local bills during the recent session of the General Assembly. Both of these bills were passed by the House and Senate and signed by Gov. Ellis Arnall. One of these laws extends the incorporate limits of Perry from three-fourths to one & one-fourth miles from the Court House. The other law changes the date for holding Houston Superior Court from December to the third and fourth Mondays in September. The other date of court, the first and second Mondays in April, re mains the same. Mr. Bloodworth who is serving his first term in the House rep resented the 23rd senatorial dis trict, of which Houston county is a part, during 1943-44. He is a well known and popular figure in political circles and is recognized as an administration supporter. In the House, Mr. Bloodworth served as secretary of the com mittee on Military Affairs. He is a member of the following com mittees: Academy for the Blind, Amendments to the Constitu tion No. 1, Appropriations, Coun ties and County Matters, General Agriculture No. 2, General Judi ciary No. 1, Georgia School for the Deaf, Mines and Mining, Penitentiary, Public Highways No. 2, University System of Georgia. METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS The 2nd quarterly conference will be held on Wednesday. I March 21, Bp. m. by Dr, S, T. Senter, district superintendent. The entire church is invited. The pastor will continue his series of services on “Character istics of a Great Church,’’preach ing next Sunday on the following topics; “A Fellowship Church’’ at 11:30 a. m. and “A Steward ship Church” at 7:30 p. m, Special Evangelistic services will begin March 18 and continue through Easter Sunday. Th e first week there will be one ser vice each day at 3:30 p. m. This service will be for children and will include singing, recreation, and worship. During the second week there will be two services each day for the whole church and communi ty. Services wiil be held from 10:15 a. m. to 11 a. m. and at Bp. m. The pastor will do the preaching. The women of the church are holding prayer services every Wednesday morning during the Lenten season. These are spon sored by the Spiritual Life Group of the Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service. Thirty young people were pres ent at the service directed by Miss Martha Koestline, conf. di rector of Youth Work, last Sun day evening. Church School-10:15 a. m. j Church Service, 11:30 a. m,, and 7:30 p. m. Young People’s Service, 6:00 p. m. Rev. J. B. Smith, Pastor. W. W. FERGUSON DIES Walter William Ferguson, 53, one of the most widely known farmers of Bonairs, was acci dentally killed at 5 p. m. Monday when his team ran away and tossed him into a ditch. He was [ rushed to the Warner Robins ! hospital but died shortly after I admittance. ! He leaves his widow, the for |mer Harriet Richardson; five Isons, Gordon of Carr Station, W. I'D., Robert C., Lindely of Bon 'aire and Otis H. Ferguson of the ;U. S. Army; three daugh ters, Mrs. S. V. Maine .(and Loana and Myrtle .[ Ferguson of Bonaire; one broth er, S. Beach Ferguson of Bon 'laire; three sisters, Mrs. P. Allen of Byron, Mrs. Bessie Barry and Mrs. Nan Ballard of Stevenson, Ala. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Watson and Whipple Funeral Home of Perry. Paper Plates, Cups, Spoons, Forks, Trays, Napkins, Egg Crates. HOUSTON HARD-, WARE CO., Perry, Ga. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 8. 1945 | FAT CATTLE SHOW TO BE HELD MCH. 16 j i Billy Gray and his Hereford which won Grand Champion Prize in both the Houston County and Bibb County Fat Cattle Shows in 1944. The seventh annual Houston County Fat Cattle Show to be held in Perry Friday, March 16, promises to be one of the best shows ever held with twenty three exhibits from FFA and 4-H club boys and a large number from livestock growers in this section. The Show will be held in one of the warehouses of Geo. C. Nunn and Son where a Ring will be prepared. The Perry Kiwanis club and the Houston County Farm Bu reau are sponsoring the Show. Donations for prizes have been made bybusiness men and farm ers throughout the countv. Total prizes amounting to $175 will be awarded the following groups and classifications; F. F. A. CLASS Heavy—lst, $10.00; 2nd. $7.50; 3rd. $5.00. M e d i u m —lst, $10.00; 2nd, $7.50; 3rd, $5.00. Light—lst, $10.00; 2nd, $7.50; 3rd, $5.00. 4-H CLASS Heavy—lst, $10.00; 2nd, $7,501 3rd, $5.00. Light—lst, $10.00; 2nd, $7.50; 3rd, $5.00. Showmanship and Handling Qualities FFA and 4-H Boys: Ist, $5.00; 2nd, $4.00; 3rd. $2.00. Grand Champion of White Classes, $lO.OO. Reserve Champion of White Classes, $5.00. Colored 4-H Class—lst, $10.00; 2nd, $7.50; 3rd, $5.00. FFA boys who will exhibit calves are: Billy Gray, Eugene Pyles, J. L. Davis, Richard Ogle tree, Charles Hicks, Virgil Co sey, Frank Giles. 4-H boys exhibiting calves are: David Gray, Horace Griffin, Billy Davis, Lindbergh Ferguson, W. B. Miller Jr., H. C. Talton Jr. Colored 4-H clubs who will have exhibits are: Neal Wil liams, Fred Lattimore, and Nor man Durham. Breeders of pure bred cattle j who will have exhibits are: M.J. jWitman of Loraine Farms, Black Angus cattle: R. P. Shepard of Peach county, Herefords; Sam A. Nunn of Perry, Herefords; W. R. Richardson of Houston county, Black Angus; E.M.Beck ham of Perry, pen of fat steers; Rhodes Sewell of Elko, Hereford 1 heifer; Paschal Muse of Perry, Herefords: and Houser B. Gil bert, Black Angus. Previous grand champion win ners are: 1939,Walter Gray Jr.; 1940, Eugene Lashley Jr.; 1941, Jack Eason; 1942, Jack Eason; 11943, Richard Ogletree; 1944, j Billy Gray. i Macon Fat Cattle Show J Ninety-five cash awards total ling over $l,OOO will be distribut ied to mid-Georgia beef producers [entering the ninth annual Fat Cattle Show and Sale to be held !at the Jones-Neuhoff Stockyards 1 in Macon March 19-20. Two new events will add to the i enjoyment and effectiveness of •this livestock exhibition.On Mon jday evening the business men of Macon will be hosts to all raisers having animals entered in the Show. A program of profes | sional entertainment has been ar ranged for the enjoyment of 4-H | Club and Future Farmer organi zation members along with “real T-bone steaks to be equally en j joyed by adult carlot and pen exhibitors,” according to Mack Jordan, show and sale director. During the noon hour on Mon day a public exhibition of out standing entries will be staged in the center of Macon’s business district where entries will be judged and displayed. While wartime shortages of manpower and cattle feeds both reflect in such events, entries are reported as “well above ex pectations” by the Macon Cham ber of Commerce which sponsors the annual Show and Sale through its Agricultural Depart ment. J. W. Denson, chairman of the Department, reveals that entries this year exceed any year since the war began. “This en courages us to continue the event despite present handicaps as it is important that cattle raisers be given every encouragement if we are to fully assure the future progress and prosperity of mid dle Georgia,” declares Chairman Denson. It is pointed out that both the Show and Sale are open to adult beef producers as well as to boys and girls entered either in the “4-H Club” or th e “FFA” groups. Negroes are offered similar and equal prizes in each entrance bracket. Entry blanks for use by beef raisers in Perry and Houston county are available from W. T. Midd'lebrooks, county agent, or from L. C. Walker, local voca tional Education instructor. Entry forms and premium lists may be had by any interested person and may be filed any time before March 18. BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS The Baptist W. M. S. observed the Week of Prayer and Offering for State Missions March 5-6-7. 1 A group of Sunday School • workers attended a Kehoboth Ass’n. S. S. meeting in Macon Tuesday night. ! The deacons will be entertain ed Thursday night (March 8) by : Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Roberts. : Sunday School, 10:15 a. m. i Morning Worship Service 11:30. ; Training Union, 6:30 p. m. i Evening Worship 7:30 p. m. Prayer Service Wednesday, ; 7:30 p. m. 1 Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. ANNOUNCEMENTS The general meeting of the ; Baptist W. M. S. will be held at , the church Monday at 3:30 p. m, The Methodist W.S.C.S. circles will meet next Monday, 3:30 p. m. as follows; No. 1, Mrs. W. Avery Lee; No. 2, Mrs. W. V.- ■ Tuggle; No. 3, Mrs. Paschal Muse. , The Sorosis club will meet to day (Thurs.) 4 p. m. at the j home of Mrs. J. L. Gallemore. ; iw&is boiem i Tunnel for Brooklyn ‘ The tunnel connecting New York • and Brooklyn, under the East river i was opened for use on January 9, :l 1908. SERVICE MEN MO WOMEN Somewhere in the Pacific (De layed)—Marine Sergeant Edwin S. Pierce, Perry. Ga. has been promoted to that rank from cor poral. Overseas since Septem ber, 1943, he is attached to an administrative unit. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Pierce Sr. Sgt. Neal F. Stembridge, Bth Air Force, U. S. Army, of Perry has been awarded the Air Medal “for meritorious achievement in accomplishing with distinction several aerial operational mis sions over enemy occupied conti nental Europe,” according to the citation. Sgt. Stembridge is a top turret gunner with the 2nd Air Divi sion. He is the son of Mrs. Nonie Stembridge of Perry and a brother of 2nd Lt. Willard Stem bridge, pilot of U. S. Marine Corps Air Force, Santa Ana, Calif. Corp. T.F. Hardy Jr. has been awarded the Combat Infantry Badge. Corp. Hardy is with the 11th Armored Division of the Third Army which played a ma jor role in the fight to save Bas togne. His mother, Mrs. T. F. Hardy Sr. of Perry has received this* Badge which was sent to her by Corp. Hardy for safe keeping. SOIL com™ NEWS By W. J. CAMPBELL Houser B. Gilbert is planting about fifteen acres and the Southern Fruit Farm about fifty acres of peach orchard on the contour on terraced land. We are now in the middle of the lespedeza planting season. W. T. Middlebrooks, county agent, has been pushing the an nual lespedeza and the Soil Con servation Service the sericea les pedeza. Both programs have been very successful and we will have several times as much les pedeza planted in the county this years as in any previous year. HOME DEMSMION AGENT Miss Annie Newton has been placed in Peach and Houston counties as home demonstration agent by the Agricultural Exten sion Service, University System of Georgia. Miss Newton began her duties in these counties on March 1. She is located tempo rarily at the New Perry Hotel. T. J. FORD SR. DltjS Thomas Jefferson Ford Sr., age 64, died Sunday night at his home at Clinchfield, Ga. Mr. Ford had lived in Houston coun ty since 1925 when he moved here from Lizella, Ga. He was a member of the Hayneville Bap tist church. Survivors include his wife who was Miss Maggie Drawhorne, three sons, T. V. Ford of Macon, and George and T. J. Ford Jr. of Clinchfield; five daughters, Mrs. Tommy Johnson of Clinchfield, Mrs. W. I. Lewis of Hawkins ville, Mrs. J. F. Irby Jr. of War ner Robins, Mrs. V. E. Avera Jr. of Macon, and Mrs, Fred Griggs of Perry. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Bethel Church, Lizella, with Rev. H. E. Coker officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Needle in Back Mystery William Stevens’ doctor, in Arapa hoe, Neb., is the fellow to see about looking for a needle in a haystack. The doctor pulled a sewing needle out of Stevens’ back after Stevens said he had been bothered for a month by a sore spot. He had no idea how the needle got there or how long he had been carrying it around in his body. Interpreter Needed A famous philologist once main tained that in the Garden of Eden, God spoke to Adam in Swedish, Adam answered in Danish and the serpent spoke in French. Twelve Syllable Words The language of the American In dians abounds in 10 and 12-sylla ble words. For instance, the Az tecs say “amatlacuilolitquitcatlaz tlahulli” for postage stamp. Literal ly, this incredible word means "pay ment received for-carrying-a-paper on-which-something-is-written. ESTABLISHED 1870 REVIEW OF TAKEN BY ASSEMBLY Poll tax repeal, constitutional revision, and legislation to aid veterans an d school teachers were packed into the curtailed legislative session that Georgia’s solons completed Saturday though 80 percent of all bills passed were of a local nature. Removal of Georgia from the list of eight southern states levy ing a poll tax as a prequisite to voting was in response to a spec tacular, 11-hour appeal by Gov. Ellis Arnall. The rewriting of the state’s 68-year-old constitution was com pleted just a few days before ad journment. Differences between the house and the senate over the bulky document threatene d briefly to disrupt the general harmony that prevailed at the session. The proposed new constitution will be submitted to the people at an election in August. Two other administration measures were among the first enacted. One authorized pay ment of a two-month salary bo nus, amounting to $3,348,000 to common school teachers this year. The other appropriated $1,000,000 annually to put a teacher retirement system into effect. Three measures looking to erection of a war memorial build ing near the capital were enact ed. They would enable the state to condemn and improve the necessary property and create a commission to supervise con struction. Legislation also was passed to exempt members of the armed forces, when home on furlough, from buying a driver’s license. The minimum age of state troopers was lowered from 25 to 21 and the maximum age from 45 to 40. The purpose was said to be to permit the employment of more returning war veterans. The assembly enacted a bill authorizing superior courts to render declaratory 'judgments and another granting the su preme court authority to pre scribe rules of procedure for the courts, subject to approval by the general assembly. Also approved was a measure creating a state judicial council, composed of judges, lawyers and laymen, to serve as an investi gating and advisory body. An other act would require bar ex aminations to be held in only three cities instead of in each judicial district. Another new act would permit superior court judges, when holding court outside their home county, to receive expenses and a traveling allowance. The legislators voted to give the state auditor an indefinite term, instead of electing him every two years, and added La bor Day and Jefferson Davis’ birthday to the list of state holi days. They also provided that Thanksgiving should be the fourth Thursday in November rather than the last Thursday. The outstanding measure that died without action was a pro posed constitutional amendment that would have permitted Gov. Ellis Arnall to run for re-election next year. He asked that the resolution not be taken up, say ing he feared it would inject politics into the referendum on the proposed new constitution. Another proposed constitution al amendment to outlaw the closed shop in Georgia was with drawn after winning a favorable committee report. Other legis lation that failed of passage would have established state owned liquor stores, provided pensions and other benefits for peace officers and revised the method of distributing gasoline tax funds to the counties. PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE Sunday School —10:15 a. m. Church Service —11:30 a. m. Supply Pastor — C. W. Frerking. Assistant Supply Owen Gumm. Conkey’s Chicken Remedies. Chick Feeders, Waterers,Char coal, Oyster Shell, Leg Bands. HOUSTON HARDWARE CO. 1 Perry, Ga.