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VOL. LXXIV. No. 22,
HONOR GRADUATES !
TO GIVE PROGRAM!,
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The first honor group studentsT
of Ferry High school’s 1945J*
graduates will present the pro- 1
gram Friday night at graduation
exercises to be held at 8:30 r
~: c lock at the school auditorium. (
Miss Merryl Hunnicutt’s sub- c
ject will be The Part Perry High c
has played in the War Program f
this Year. Miss Nan Thompson r
will talk on the topic, Perry High
looks to th e Future. Bobby j
Spencer’s subject will be Re- L
sponsibilities and Opportunities-
Confronting the 1945 Graduates, h
Supt. E. P- Staples will ad- s
dress farewell remarks to the
class and D. M. Ryle, chmn. I]
board of trustees, will deliver ]
the diplomas. 1
The commencement sermon ]
was preached Sunday night by j
Rev. J. A. Ivey, pastor Perry ,
Baptist church, on the text,
"Let him who would be greatest i
among you be servant of all.”]
The church choirs rendered two
anthems with Mrs. Mayo Davis ‘
as pianist. '
Members of the senior class [ 1
are: Wendell Whipple Jr., Tom- ;
my Marshall, Frank Satterfield, >
Gene Ethridge, Walter Skellie,
Calvin Andel, Jackie Beavers, :
Lewis Bledsoe, Harry Dubois, 1
Harold Harrison, John Teal 1
Lewis, Millard Locke, Aldine !
Rape, Bobby Spencer, Horace 1
Stembridge, Jack Wilson, Emo- ;
gene Kennedy, Betty Boler, Nan 1
Thompson, Elizabeth Scarbor- :
borough, Merryl Hunnicutt, Mar
tha Ann Gordon, Sue Webb, Jo
sephine Bostick, Virginia Car
lisle, Dixie Cauthon, Jacquelyn
Ellis, Mary Gray, Pauline Gray,
Louise Head, Sara Henry, Hilda
Johnson, Audrey Meadows, Lo
lita McCormick, Nadine Thames.
AUXILIARY MEETS
The Auxiliary to the Robert D.
Collins Post American Legion
honored World War mothers at
their luncheon meeting, held
May 17 at the Legion Home.
Mrs. Joe Mitchell, president,pre
sided.
Rev. J. A. Ivey, pastor Perry
Baptist church, paid tribute to
mothers. Miss McKinley sang
“Mother MaCree” and “Dear
Little Boy of Mine” and Mrs.
Mitchell sang “Prayer Perfect”
with Mrs. J. M. Gooden as pi
anist.
The Auxiliary voted to sponsor
the collection of walking canes
for veterans at the Thomasville,
Ca. hospital. Mrs. J. B. Cal
houn, Mrs. B. H. Andrew Jr.,
and Mrs. R. E. Smith were
named as a committee to solicit
canes from the public for this
cause.
The following officers were
elected; Mrs. Joe Mitchell,pres
ident; Mrs. Frank King, Ist vice
president; Mrs. Geo. B. Wells,
Ind vice-president: Mrs. C. C.
Chapman, secty.; Mrs, J. B. Cal
houn, treasurer: Mrs. 6. H. An
nrew Jr., sgt.-at-arms; Mrs. R.
, • Ogletree,, chaplain; and Mrs.
b- M. Ryle, historian.
Hostesses were Mesdames Hoi
ks Kezar. E. I. Holmes, J. T.
Mitchell, Tom Huff, H. W. Huff,
Bam Wilson, A. D. Culpepper, j
L Cater, and J, G. Heard,and]
Miss Katharine Cater.
kiwanis club visits
Warner robins post
Twenty-five members of the
perry Kiwanis club were enter
tained Wednesday by the Warner;
•ejins Junior Chamber of Com-;
pierce and, during their visit, I
aired Robins Field, headquar-1
ters of the Warner Robins Air
echnical Service Command.
Robms Field officials, conduct-'
the tour, took the Kiwanians!
the main aircraft hangars, en
pme test buildings and included
d vlsi t to the field demonstration;
t 1 ea .of the Medical Service j
gaining school. In this area!
‘‘•c washing machines, shower
'itnpment and water purifiers!
pstructed entirely from salvag
ed material.
At the completion of the tour,
„ members returned to the
C man cafeteria in the Robins
■ l ’race area for dinner.
Houston Home Journa!
SERVICE WO WOMEN \
William C. Watts, 18, son of:
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Watts, Per-. 1
ry, Ga., is receiving his initial!
Naval indoctrination at the U. S.
Naval Training Center, Great
Lakes, Illinois.
Marine Corps Air Depot, Mira
mar, Calif. —Marine Private First
Class Norlis C. Chapman, 20, son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Chapman
of Perry, Ga., has returned here
from the Pacific on furlough and
reassignment.
A general duty man with a
First, Second and Fourth Marine
Air Wing service squadron, he
was based in the Palm Islands.
He underwent bombings and
stfafings, but escaped injury.
He was graduated in 1942 from
Perry High school and enlisted in
November, 1942. He attained
his present rank in September,
1943. Three of his brothers are
in the Army. He is on furlough
visit in Perry.
Ens. Robert Lee Marchman
111, 20, of 432 Persons St., Fort
Valley, Ga.. is stationed at the
Atlantic Fleet’s motor torpedo
boat squadrons training center,
Melville, R. I. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs.'R. L. Marchman
Jr. of Fort Valley.
Ens. Marchman graduated
from Emory University, Atlanta,
Ga., under the Navy V-12 pro
gram. He also attended mid
shipman’s school in New York
City. He is a graduate of the
Riverside Military Academy Jun
ior College. Upon completion of
instruction he will join an operat
ing PT squadron somewhere in
the Pacific.
Marvin Griffin,Jr., 18, of Kath
leen, Ga., has been advanced to
fireman, first class, USN, while
serving aboard a destroyer in
the Atlantic Fleet,
He wears the American and
European-African-Middle East
ern Theatre ribbons.
Griffin is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Griffin of Kathleen.
Before entering the Navy he
helped his father on their farm.
Griffin graduated from Bonaire,
Ga. High School in 1943.
AN EIGHTH AIR FORCE
LIBERATOR STATION, ENG
LAND:—Sergeant Neal F. Stem
bridge, son of Mrs. Nonie Stem
bridge of Ball Street, Perry, Ga.,
was recently awarded the Air
Medal for “meritorious achieve
ment” in aerial combat.
Announcement of the award
was made by the commanding
officer of the 453rd Bombard
ment Group upon Stembridge’s
return from his sixth combat
flight over enemy territory.
As a top turret gunner aboard
the B-24 Liberator “Crow’s
Nest,” the nineteen year old air
man has bombed vital Nazi tar-,
gets in Hanau, Mayen, Bingen,
and Magdeburg.
Sgt. Stembridge is a member
of a heavy bombardment group
which recently celebrated its
first anniversary overseas. In
one year of operations the or
ganization, as a unit of Major
General William E. Kepner’si
Second Air Division, has partici
pated in more than 225 bombing
attacks. To date its bombers
1 have dropped a total of nearly
12,130 tons of high explosives
and destroyed 40 Luftwaffe
J fighter planes in the air, thereby
[contributing materially to the
[success of the Eighth Air Force’s!
high powered aerial offensive
against the German military ma
chine.
After attending Perry High
School from which he graduated
in 1942, Sgt. Stembridge was
employed at the Army Air Depot j
at Warner Robins, Ga.
He entered the services in Au-i
jgust, 1943, and received basic f
’(training at Greensboro, N. C. j
'Later he attended Aerial Gun-j
j nery School at Yuma, Arizona. |
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NOTICE
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The American Decorating and)
[Display Co. of Atlanta, which isi
[decorating Perry for the home-]
!coming of Gen. Hodges, will,
have new American flags for
I sale at the City Hall from Fri
day through Monday,
Citizens are requested by city
officials to display flags at their
homes. Those not owning flags
may buy them from above com
pany or elsewhere. |
PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY GA.. THURSDAY, MAY 24. 1945
GENERAL HODGES COMING HOME I
GENERAL COURTNEY H. HODGES
Perry’s famous son. General Courtney Hicks Hodges,
commanding general of the U. S. First Army, is coming to
Atlanta, Ga. today (Thursday) to be central figure in the big
gest hero home-coming celebration that city has ever experi
enced and the first of its kind to be held for World War II
heroes. Gen. Hodges’ wife is residing in Atlanta while he is
on overseas duty.
With Gen, Hodges, the first ranking general officer to
come home from command of an army overseas to receive a
hero’s' welcome, will be fifty soldiers including generals, field
and company officers, and 24 enlisted men who have been dec
orated for valor and selected on their combat records. Most
of these men are Georgians and all the enlisted men will be
eligible for immediate discharge from the Army at Fort Mc-
Pherson. The general officers will represent all branches of
the combat services of the Army and were selected by Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The group is flying from Paris and will arrive at 1 m.
today in Atlanta where a 17-gun salute will be fired for Geor
gia’s four-star native son, Gen. Hodges. After a parade and
a program at the Georgian Terrace Hotel where amputee cases
of World War II will be honorees, the party of Gen. Hodges
will go to the Biltmore Hotel about 3:30 p. m. to visit with
their families. At 8:30 p. m. there will be a public program
at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium where Gen. Hodges
will speak.
The War department announced Monday that Gen.
Hodges’ famous U. S. First Army was on the way from
Europe to the Pacific to join in the fight atrainst Japan. The
First Army was the first American Army into France, first
through the Siegfried line, first into Germany, first across the
Rhine, and first to join the Russians, but its greatest accom
plishment was last winter when it took the main weight of
the German counter-offensive through the Ardennes and held.
Gen. Hodges was deputy to Gen. Omar Bradley on D-Day
in Normandy, After the break-through at St. Lo, Gen. Brad
ley became a group commander and Gen. Hodges took over as
commander of the First Army. Then he was a lieutenant
general but on April 24 this year his confirmation as a full
general was made by the Senate. The record of the First Ar
my under Gen. Hodges is impressive.
In World War I, the general won the Distinguished Ser
vice Cross and Silver Star. In World War 11, he has been
awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, an Oak Leaf Cluster
in lieu of a second D. S. M. and the Bronze Star Medal, the
last for thp taking of Aachen.
Gen. Hodges rose from the ranks to a full general, the
highest rank ever attained by a Georgian.
Perry’s Celebration
Perry and Houston county are planning a gala home-com
ing celebration for their native son, General Hodges,
next week when he comes to visit his 88-year-old mother, Mrs.
John H. Hodges; his brother, John L. Hodges; his three sis
ters, Mrs. T. L. Hendrix, Mrs. S. P. Houser, and Mrs. T. D,
Mason Sr. He will be accompanied by his wife.
Tentative plans have been made to honor Perry’s illustri
ous son who has attained national and international fame by
his leadership of the victorious U. S. First Army in Europe.
These plans will not be definite until confirmed by Gen. Hodges
when he comes to Atlanta today.
Next Tuesday, May 29, has been set as the day of cele-
I bration by the general committee, provided Gen. Hodges
i approves. Plans call for a program to begin at 4:30 p. m. and
a barbecue at 6p. m. The program will be held from a grand
! stand erected on the Perry school grounds and the barbecue
will he served at the school, also. In case of rain, the cele
bration will be held in the Basketball Court.
The definite date will be announced through the state
press and over the radio as as decided upon.
Sam A. Nunn, mayor of Perry and life-long friend of Gen.
■ Hodges, is general chairman of the celebration. Col. Chap
man, commanding officer of Warner Robins Technical Air Ser
vice Command, is co-operating in plans for the occasion and
will welcome Gen. Hodges in behalf of Warner Robins. The
Robins Field Band will furnish music and soldiers from this
j Post will form a military escort.
The following groups will be represented on the program:
Robert D. Collins Post of the American Legion by B. H. An
drew Jr., commander; County Commissioners by J, Alva Da
vis, chmn.; Kiwanis Club by G. F. Nunn, president: Perry
school by Supt. E. P. Staples, and the Houston county schools
by S. ,W. Hickson, superintendent.
Brief remarks will be made by a group of boyhood friends
of Gen. Hodges, including Mayor Nunn, A. C. Riley, mayor
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SOFTBALL LEAGUE NEWS |
By G. FRANCIS NUNN
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Sunday’s Results —Reds 6,
Greens, 2; Browns 15, Blues 3:
Browns 5, Blues 1.
The hitting star for the day [
was Glea Gray with 2 triples, 2 i
doublesand a single in seven t
trips to the plate. Eric Staples']
pitched both games of the double ]
header for the Browns and beat |
the league leading Blues in both j
contests. Th e former terrors i
of the league completely disinte- |
grated in the first game, and
with their second licking well es- ,
tablished, lolled around waiting ,
for the second game. That was |
a little better as the Browns ,
smelled blood by that time and .
ran rough shod over the bumbl- ,
ing Blues again for the second ;
victory. The leaders sorelyjmissed (
their energetic catcher, Lasseter,
however, and cannot be written
off by a long way, as they still ,
pack tremendous power at the •
plate. i
The same teams play each oth
er again next Sunday, with the
Browns and the Blues leading off
in the opener and the Greens
and Reds tangling in the twin
bill.
The Standings
W L
BLUES 7 3
REDS 5 3
BROWNS 5 4
•k GREENS 1 8
More details of the games
when grain season is over.
OPA INFORMATION
There will be a meeting on
May 31, 3 p. m. at the Court
House in Macon for those affect
ed by Meat Control Order No. 1;
that is,federally inspected plants,
non-federally inspected slaugh
terers, and all farmers who have
slaughtered in the past and who
have expectations of slaughter
ing in the future.
Sugar for home canning pur
poses will be issued on the basis
of current needs, not to exceed
a maximum of fifteen pounds
per person.
This action was made neces
sary so that persons planning to
do home canning later on may be
assured of an adequate supply.
In view of the necessary cut
by War Food Administration of
450,000 pounds in the allotment
of sugar for home canning this
year, OPA has been requested to
take steps for rationing the al
lotment fairly among consumers.
Processed Foods
Blue H-2 thru M-2 valid thru)
June 2.
Blue N-2 thru S-2 valid thru
June 30.
Blue T-2 thru X-2 valid thru
July 31.
Blue Y-2 thru C-l valid thru
Aug. 31.
Meats and Fats
Red Y-5, Z 5, A-2 thru D-2>
expire June 2.
Red E-2 thru J-2 expire
June 30.
Red K-2 thru P-2 valid thru
July 31.
Red Q-2 thru U-2 valid thru
Aug. 31.
Sugar
Sugar Stamp No. 35 now valid
for five pounds thru June 2. Su
gar Stamp No. 30 became valid
May 1 and expires Aug 31.
Gasoline
A-15 coupons valid from March
22, 1945 thru June 21, 1945.
Rationing rules now require
that every car owner write his
license number and state in ad
vance on all gasoline coupons in
his possession.
Shoes
Stamps 1,2, &3 on “airplane”
sheet in Book 3 now valid for one
pair each.
Fuel Oil
Period 1,2, 3,4, 5 coupons
valid at 10 gallons each.
BUSINESS CHANGE
S. Bernstein has leased his
Dry Goods store to J. H. Thomp
son and W. F. Daniels of Haw
kinsville and Rhett Milam of
Perry, Mr. Bernstein has on a
sale to sell out his stock of goods
by July 15 when he is to vacate
the store.
ESTABLISHED 3870
MUSE NAMEDBY WFA
ON PEACH COMMITTEE
Paschal Muse of Perry has
been named by the War Food
Adnar. on the industry comittee
to administer the Ga. Peach
Marketing Agreement and other
program following nomination
by Georgia peach growers. He
is one of six men named to rep
resent south Ga. and one of six
teen in the state of Ga.
The marketing agreement and
other programs, designed to reg
ulate the handling of f re s h
peaches grown in Georgia, was
not in effect during the past two
seasons, since both years' peach
crops were considerably short of
a normal year. Shipments out
of Georgia for 1943 totaled only
1,836 cars, and last years ship
ments were approximately 5,265
cars. Normal shipments are
around 7,000 cars, but this year’s
expectations are that shipments
will be substantially over that
figure, with the peach crop one
of the largest on record.
Under the marketing agree
ment and order program, the
committee has authority to regu
late tne size or grade of peaches
moving in inter state commerce
and to enforce other restrictive
measures, subject to the appro
val of the Secretary of AgricuF
j ture.
PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE
Rev. Frank Sells. Johnson
City, Tenn., will conduct a Com
munion and Baptismal Service
at the Presbyterian church Sun
day, May 27. Mr. Sells begins a
aeries of Evangelistic services at
the Clinchfield church the same
evening.
Sunday School—10:15 a. m.
Church Service—ll:3o a. m.
Assistant Supply
Owen Gumm.
METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Church School-10:15 a. m.,
Church Services, 11:30 a. m,
and 8:00 p. m.
Morning—“T h e Unattained
Goal."
Evening—‘‘A Daily Guide;
The Holy Spirit."
Young People’s Service, 63:0
p. m.
Rev. J. B. Smith, Pastor.
CARD OF THANKS
The Sgt. Clinton C. Duncan
chapter of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy take this
method of thanking the County
Commissioners and the City of
Ferry officials for having the
Confederate Monument moved
from the intersection of Carroll
and Ball Streets to the Court
House grounds. The new loca
tion is more attractive than the
original one and places the mon
ument where it is not a traffic
hazard. The monument was
moved at the suggestion of May
or Sam A. Nunn.
LIBRARY NOTES
Enrollment for Vacation Read
ing Club is now open. The name
of each child who wishes to join
will be recorded on a chart hang
ing in the library. A star will
be placed after the name for
each book read.
The Library Extension Service
of the State Dept, of Education
of Ga. will award a certificate to
each club member who reads ten
approved books. A good star
certificate will be awarded for
reading twenty-five books. All
children in the county from the
second grade up are eligible.
Educators throughout the state
highly recommend this summer
reading for boys and girls. Many
new books have been added to
make the club both a pleasure
and a benefit.
Verniece Beavers, Librarian.
LtTs.N. HODGES JO. FREED
Lt. Sam N. Hodges Jr. of At
lanta has notified his family
through the American Red Cross
that he has been liberated and is
safe. He had been a prisoner of
1 war of Germany since Oct. 1944.
