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VOL. LXXIV. No. 31 PUBLIC INVITED TO ! ROBINS FIELD AUG.I| ~~~J Preparations for 10,000 visitors 1 are being made at Robins Field) for an open house that Warner! Robins Air Technical Service! Command will hold Wednesday, August 1, celebrating the 38th anniversary of the Army Air Forces, it was announced by Col. Thomas H. Chapman, WRATSC commanding officer. Local residents will be ad mitted to exhibit and demonstra tion areas at 12:30 p. m. CWT, and from then until Bp. m. will have an opportunity to get ac quainted with the operation of the huge aircraft maintenance, supply engineering and procure ment installation. Plans are being made to ex thibit the famed B-29 Superfort ress along with all the other planes that are mentioned daily in news stories of the war and some that are not mentioned such as experimental planes, in cluding the freakish-looking XP-55, a modified “flying wing” which gives the impression of flying backwards. Demonstrations of maintenance operations and the famous cen tral station fire control system that operates the deadly guns of the B-29 are expected to draw wide attention. Other features will include demonstration flights of various aircraft and aerial car go dropping operations and ex hibits prepared by the Mainten ance, Supply, Chemical Warfare, Quartermaster, Ordnance, Dis trict Procurement, Personnel and Base Services and Chaplains’ di visions and sections. Visitors will be allowed to walk through the aircraft maintenance ) shops until Bp. m. to witness, work being done in modifying! B-24 Liberator bombers for Cen-1 tral Fire Control. The modified j planes are being used in training crews that will be assigned to Superfortresses. The cantonment area will be open and exhibits may be seen of training methods used by the Air Technical Service Command training school, the Medical Ser- V vice training school, the Signal! I Corps school and training of ser j vice group personnel. A retreat ■ parade of all troops stationed at I Robins Field will be held at 4 p. m. August 1, designed as Army Air Forces day by Gen. H. H. Arnold, commanding general of the AAF, is being observed throughout the world on the an niversary of the Signal Corps order creating the Division of Aeronautics, Aug. 1, 1907. The Army bought its first plane in 1909 and the first military air drome was established a short time later at College Park, Md. General Arnold was the 14th student assigned to Army flight training and was one of the first three officers to earn wings when the rank of military avia tor was established, A PROCLAMATION Whereas, General H. H. Ar nold, Commanding General of the AAF, has designated Wed-| nesday, August 1, as Army Air Forces Day, and: Whereas, Robins Field will ob serve this 38th anniversary of I I the Army Air Forces, with an I open house from 1:30 to 8:00 p. m., CWT, to which ail of Cen tral Georgia is invited by Col. Thomas H. Chapman, Command ing Officer of the Warner Robins [ Air Technical Service Command; Therefore, I, S. A. Nunn,May or of the City of Perry, do here by proclaim Wednesday, August 1, as Army Air Forces Day in | this community, and 1 urge thej I people of Perry and Houston l County to accept the invitation j of Col. Thomas H. Ch apman and visit Robins Field. This will ( give many of our people an ex-j cellent opportunity to see per-1 sonally the tremendous war job | which Robins Field has done and! is doing. This July 23, 1945. S. A. NUNN, Mayor, City of Perry. lra™liicT Sunday School—10:15 a. m. Church Service—ll:3o a. m. Owen Gumm Supply Pastor. Houston Home Journal OPA INFORMATION Ration Book Five I War Ration Book Five, “small-! |er than a dollar bill’’ and con taining just half as many stamps jas the last hook issued, will be j distributed in December, Chester Bowles, OPA admr. announced Tuesday. At the some time the new ‘A’’ Gasoline Ration Book will be issued. Distribution will take place at school houses or other public buildings throughout the Nation from December 3 through De cember 15. OPA District Of fices will fix the exact time for each local area. The new “A” Gasoline Books will go into use December 22, and War Ration Book Five will be used soon af ter the first of the year for food rationing and for rationing shoes. “C” Book To Be Discontinued On Oct. 1, boards will discon tinue issuing “G” gasoline cou pons. The change is being made to simplify accounting at boards and ration banks and to reduce the cost of printing and distribut ing ration currency. Elimination of “C” coupons and the issuance of all supplemental gasoline ra | tions in “B’ ( coupons will not change the amount of gasoline a driver receives. “C” coupons will continue to be valid for some time even af ter their issuance is discontinued so motorists will not have to ex change those they hold now or are issued before October 1 for “B” coupons. Automobile Rationing All 1942 automobiles have been removed from rationing in order to move the few remaining cars in stock in anticipation of re sumed manufacture of new cars. Details of the rationing program for 1945 model cars will be an j nounced shortly. Temporarily, the same eight [groups of essential drivers will be eligible for 1946 models as were for the frozen 1942 cars. These include officials engaged in fire-fighting, law enforcement re lated to the public health and safety and transportation of mail, physicians, surgeons, li censed veterinarians, public !health nurses, ministers and members of the armed forces or state military forces for official business only. Low Price Clothing The joint OPA-WPB program to place more low priced essen tial garments on the market is showing results. A good many different types of clothing pro duced under the program . . and easily identified by the manufac turer’s ticket carrying the retail ceiling price ... are beginning to appear in local stores. An in creasing number of garments in the lower priced field are ex-: pected to be in stores by fall. It is important to remember that the program does not in crease the total supply of cloth ing, but does provide more of what is available in the lower price ranges. Military requirements for fab ric continue large. The Pacific war has increased demands for cotton goods for clothing for tenting and coverings. Woolens also will also be in scarce supply as a direct result of military re quirements. Some easing of the j supply of woolen fabrics may be j apparent during the first part I of 1946. Gasoline A-16 coupons valid June 22 thru September 21. Good for 6 gallons each. Rationing rules now require that every car owner write hisj license number and state in ad vance on all gasoline coupons in ■ his possession. i Processed Foods Blue T-2 thru X-2 valid thru j July 31. I Blue Y-2 thru C-l valid thru! I Aug. 31. Blue D-l thru H-l valid thru j Sept. 30. Blue J-l thru N-l valid thru Oct. 31. Meats and Fats Red K-2 thru P-2 valid thru; I July 31. Red Q-2 thru U-2 valid thru; !Aug. 31. Red V-2 thru Z-2 valid thru Sept. 30. Red A-l thru E-l valid thru Oct. 31. Sugar Sugar Stamp No. 36 good for PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, JULY 26. 1945 j GEORGIA NEEDS THE NEW CONSTITUTION (EDITORIAL) , On Tuesday, August 7, an election will be held throughout the state of Georgia for the people to vote for or against the ratification of the proposed new Constitution. The first pro posal on the ballot is the amendment, numbered No. 1, which revises the Constitution of Georgia. For the first time in the history of the state, the people themselves will pass on the proposed new Constitution despite the fact that seven constitutions have been adopted, the latest one being the famous “constitution of 1877,’’ which has been amended 296 times since its adoption in efforts to make it more flexible. That the revision of this present Constitution was needed, many Georgians have declared for years. Gov. Ellis Arnall made a new constitution a cardinal point in his platform when he campaigned for governor. The 1943 General Assembly pro vided for a Revision Commission whose membeFship comprised members of both branches of the legislature, members of the appellate courts and of the superior courts, certain constitu tional officers of the state, and representative citizens of Georgia. This commission of twenty-three members'edited the ex isting document, harmonized its text, removed “dead amend ments,’’ and modernized the basic law. Their work was sub mitted to the General Assembly which studied and debated its every proposal. Gov. Arnall says that the document prepared and approved by the legislators, “while retaining the venerable traditions of Georgia’s institutions, is a document that breathes a modern spirit that will help our State on its way to prosperi ty and economic advancement in the postwar period.’’ Included in its notable reforms are: (1) establishment of an effective budget system which will abolish the present allo cation system for state taxes and require all funds to be ap propriated by the Assembly, (2) elimination of the poll tax and the establishment of a genuine literacy test for voters, (3) creation of a constitutional Veterans Service office (which has been endorsed by the American Legion), (4) safe-guard ing of penal reform through creation of a constitutional board of corrections, (5) elevation of the Commissioner of Agricul ture and the Commissioner of Labor to constitutional status, (6) elimination of special tax exemptions to favored corpora tions, (7) requirement of publication of notice of local legisla tion with certificate of publication as part of the Act itself for the law to be valid, (8) reorganization of county school sys tems (approved by the state Dept, of Education), (9) im provement of sections relating to state and county finance (ap proved by Association of County Commissioners), (10) in crease of powers of the general assembly which should result in fewer amendments to the constitution, (II) provision for home rule for cities and counties, (12) provision for state wide merit system, (13) power given to legislature to require jury service of women, (14) provision for a lieutenant governor. All existing local amendments are continued in force. Homestead exemption is continued as it now exists. The Gov ernor is forbidden to veto constitutional amendments. The county-unit system of voting in Georgia will not be affected by the proposed new constitution. “The unit system is provided by statute and the statute is unaffected by the pro posed new constitution,” says J. Lon Duckworth, chmn, of the State Democratic Executive Committee of Ga. Debtors are not offered less protection but possibly more under the new state constitution, according to Attorney Gen eral T. Grady Head in a reply to critics who charge that the “pony” homestead exemption is eliminated by the new con stitution. The proposed Constitution contains fifteen articles which may be read in detail in the Constitutional Supplement of this newspaper. Every citizen of Houston county should be interested in and familiarize themselves with the articles of the new Con stitution. Those qualified to vote should go to the polls on August 7 and vote for the amendment revising the constitu tion (No. 1 on the ballot) in order to insure progressive gov ernment for Georgia under a new and improved Constitution. STATE BALLOTS FOR AUG. 7 ELECTION SENT Copies for the official ballot for the August 7 general election have been mailed out to county officials by the office of Secretary of State John B. Wilson. The ballot is two and one half feet long, and contains 12 pro posed amendments to the state constitution. With 28 counties still unre ported, Georgia has 488,040 per sons qualified to vote in the Aug. 7 election, the secretary of state’s office announced. There were 562,684 qualified voters in the 1944 elections. , The first amendment revises the old constitution by substitut-, ing the new constitution for it. The question is stated: “'For' amendment revising the consti tution,” and ‘‘Against amend-! ment revising the constitution.’* The other amendments are in-| [tended to change the presenti 1 constitution in the event the new! (constitution is not ratified by the (the people, They will not bej [needed if the new constitution, jis adopted. j NOTICE The Red Cross will hold a | meeting Friday night, July 27, 8, [o’clock at Perry school All con tributors to the Red Cross are I eligible to attend. J. P. Etheridge, Acting Chmn. j 5 lbs, thru Aug, 31. Shoes Stamps 1,2, &3 on “airplane” sheet in Book 3 now valid for one I pair each. No. 4 Stamp becomes valid August 1. SOFTBALL LEAGUE NEWS By G. FRANCIS NUNN After a Sunday of rain, the League snapped back into a full afternoon of play last Sunday and put on a good exhibition, with the Blues taking a sound beating from the rejuvevated Greens, and the Reds smacking the Browns a doubleheader. In the opening game, Jack 1 Wilson returned to the mound I for the Greens and hooked up I with Roberts in as fancy a pitch i ers battle as you will ever see for seven innings. The Greens scored once in the first and again in the second, and that looked like enough to win as Jack was pouring it on, but then the Blues came up with their only two hits of the ball game in the same inning, the sixth, and ! pushed across three tallies. The Greenies were not to be denied, | however, and came roaring back i in the eighth to shove across j eight runs and completely grab the nanny of Pitcher Roberts, 1 who walked three men and al lowed five hits during the spree. I The final score was 10-3 and with (nine Blues fanning the ozone, three of them in one inning, there was never much doubt of the outcome. Manager Walter Skellie led his ! rampaging Reds to a two-ply win lover the Browns, who were play ling minus their stellar manager, j Bubber Pierce, The payoff in the opener came when Frank I Armstrong marched up to the platter in the fourth with three men on and whammed a home run off the delivery of Bob Mas see. In the second game it was Howard Chapman, who smashed out a triple with two on in the first, one! then big A, Hardy SERVICE MEN UNO WOMEN Fifth Air Force, Philippine Is lands—-Sergeant Lawton L. Dan iel has recently been assigned to the 3rd Attack Group in the Philippines. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Felix G. Daniel, Route 2, Perry. T h e young graduate of Perry High School is in the engineering section of the Grim Reapers, veteran A-20 spearhead of the Fifth Air Force. Shortly after graduating, Sgt. Daniel entered the Army and af ter completing his basic training attended Buckingham Gunnery School where he won his gun ner’s wings last November. He has two brothers also serving in the Armed Forces, Frank is a lieutenant with the Artillery in Germany and Felix is a private first class at Keesler Field, Miss. 2nd Lt. Cecil R. Armstrong,2o, of Clinch field, Ga. is now sta tioned at Fort Sumner Army Air Field, Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Lt. Armstrong, son of Mr. and Mrs. H, C. Armstrong, entered the Army in 1941. He was a student in civil life. Lt. Arm strong is a trainee pilot at Fort Sumner Army Air Field. Corp, Harris Chapman has landed safely in the Pacific war area according to message re ceived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Chapman. ARMY BRIEFS EDITORS ON JAPANESE WAR PROBLEMS ALBANY, Ga. —“Task Force 30” composed of Army combat veteran officers and enlisted men, explained to South Georgia news paper publishers, editors, radio station operators and broadcast ers how the United States armed forces defeated Germany, and outlined the strategy to be used against Japan and the problems confronting this country in the prosecution of the Pacific war, at a conference here Saturday, Through the use of motion pic tures, lectures and charts, the Army men drove home the les son that Japan is no easy oppo nent, and delved into the terrific logistics problem which must be solved before the Rising Sun is made to set. Holding two sessions at the Hotel Gordon, the group adjourn ed for luncheon to the American Legion clubhouse, where the famed K rations of the Army were served for lunch and were labeled surprisingly good by munching editors and commen tators —ii nut taken us a steady diet. Personnel of “Task Force 30” includes Col. Cyril Bassaich, of the Field Artillery, who served 22 months overseas in Africa and Italy, with the British First Ar my, and at Dakar in French West Africa and with tfie Ameri can mission: Maj. Harry R. Van Arnam, of the infantry, Fourth Armored division, who recently returned from 14 months over seas where he participated in the historic break through at St. Lo, France, aided in relieving the besieged garrison at Baston ge and won the Silver Star, the nation’s third highest decoration; Sgt. William K. House, 22-year old combat infantryman who participated in amphibious as saults on Leyte and Okinawa with the veteran 96th Dixision, winning the Silver Star and the Purple Heart; Capt. James G. Pate, Field Artillery, public re lations o ffi ce r representing Fourth Service Command head quarters and a veteran of the Aleutian Islands campaign of 1943; and Lt. Col, Harold Tyler, former Georgia news editor of the Associated Press, now public relations officer of the Fourth Service Command. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hodges of the Houston Home Journal, Perry, Ga. Pvt. Eugene Lashley Jr. of Las Vegas, Calif, is at home on a two weeks’ visit. throttled the Brownies for a near shutout. The scores in the two games were 12-4 and 5-1. Next Sunday the Browns and Reds open play with a single game and the Blues and Greens tangle in the twin bill. ESTABLISHED 1870 FARM SAFETY WEEK BEING OBSERVED , Farmers in every state in the (Nation are observing National Farm Safety Week during the week of July 22-28, Director Walter S. Brown of the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service. 1 pointed out this week. During the safety week ob servance. designed to call atten tion to accident hazards on farms and in homes, an effort is being made to teach farm people to recognize hazards and to guard ' against and eliminate as many of them as possible. “The need for safety work is underligned by the fact that an average of between 40 and 50 farm dwellers are killed by acci dents each day,” Mr. Brown said, “making an annual deah toll of from 15,000 to 17,000.” Calling attention to the fact that the skill and labor of Ameri can farmers is a vital factor in winning the war, President Tru man proclaimed the week of July 22-28 as National Farm Safety Week. Machinery, livestock, and falls are the principal sources of farm 1 work accidents. Falls and burns are the chief causes of accidents in farm homes. The annual death toll in farm homes is around 7,000. Each of the 7.000,000 farm families in the United States has almost one chance out of five of suffering from an injury to some member of the family this year unless extra care is taken at work, in the home, at school and ; on the highway. The average time lost because of accidents in 1943 was about four days per farmer. A farm or farm building catches fire every 15 minutes during the day in this country and the cost of farm fires totals around $250,000 every day. STATE BONDS PAID When the State of Georgia July 1 paid off $1,698,000 state bonds that were issued originally over 100 years ago—and have cost four and a half times the , principal In interest—it reduced the indebtedness to only $226,000 from the original $5,000,000 in bonds issued for the construction or the state-owned W. & A. Railroad. Gov. Arnall has indicated that this balance will be paid ahead of time (its due on July 1, 1946), as the money already is set aside in the sinking fund. State Auditor B. E. Thrasher Jr. estimates that the state has paid out over $25,000,000 in in terest on the original $5,000,000 bond issue for the W. &A., since the bonds have been refunded twice. The state collects ap proximately $600,000 annually I from rental of the W. &A. pro perties. METHODIST ANNOUNGEMENTS Church School-10:15 a. m., Church Services, 11:30 a. m, and 8:00 p. m. Young People’s Service, 6:30 p. ra. Rev. J. B. Smith, Pastor. BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS Sunday School, 10:00 a. m. Morning Worship Service 11:30. Evening Worship 8:00 p. m. Training Union, 7:00 p. m. Prayer Service Wednesday, 8:00 p. m. Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. BIBLE SCHOOL ENDS The ten-day Vacation Bible School came to a close Sunday night with exercises at the church services. Rev. J. A. Ivey, pastor, brought an appro priate message to the children. Each department gave a dem i onstration of what had been taught at the School and had dis plays of their work. A generous offering was made i for the Ga. Baptist Children’s Home at Hapeville.