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VOL. LXXIV. No. 34 COUNTY PLANS TO BUILD COURT HOUSE i i Houston county commissioners! are planning to build a new Court House next year. With this in view, they have increased the county’s tax levy 5 mills above the 1944 tax levy. The total tax rate for 1945 as fixed by the county commission ers in session Tuesday, Aug. 7, is 35 mills for Perry and 30 mills for the remainder of the county. Perry’s rate is higher due to a 5 mills tax to retire school build ing bonds. The levy for county purposes is 20 mills, which is 5 mills above the 1944 levy. The county-wide school tax is 5 mills and the school districts all levy a 5 mills maintenance tax. The 20 mills plus 10 mills for school purposes makes a total of 30 mills for the county. The tax digest shows the tax able property in the county to be $3,799,533. The 1944 valuation | was $3,408,324, making a gain of $391,209 in taxable property val ues for 1945. TOMATO JUICE MS By Annie C, Newton, H. D. A. Most widely popular of home made juices is that from toma taos. It is easy to can by pro cessing the jars of hot juice in a boiling-water bath. But home canners sometimes have ques tions to ask, and here are some put to home canning specialists of the U. S. Department of Ag riculture. Q. Why does my home-can ned tomato juice sometimes sep arate? A. Some separation is normal because the pulp is heavier than the light-colored juice so it set tles below it in the jar. The finer the sieve used for straining the juice, the less the pulp will set tle. Too much or too little heat may cause the solid part of the tomatoes to settle, so follow heat ing directions carefully. If pulp does settle, just shake the jar before pouring out the juice. Q. If tomato juice is packed hot, why need it be processed in a water bath canner? A. The chances of keeping i are much better. Bacteria or yeasts in the air may get into the juice at the time jars are filled, and if these are not killed by further heating, the juice may spoil. Q. Does home-canned tomato juice have as much food value as tomatoes? A. The vitamin Cin juice and canned whole tomatoes is ap proximately the same. Some vi tamin A and other nutrients may be lost, when seeds and pulp are discarded. Q. Does heating the tomatoes before straining juice save vita mins? A. Tests have shown that the easiest way of preparing the juice is the most saving of vita min C. This is to simmer the tomatoes until the juice begins to How. Sieve while the tomatoes are hot. Reheat just to boiling, j Then add a teaspoon of salt per quart of juice, if desired. Pour into hot jars at once and process Tor 15 minutes. Q. Does a metal mill or sieve used in straining tomatoes de i str °y vitamin C, and should a cloth bag be used? A. For practical purposes a tfietal juice extractor is satisfac tory unless some copper or iron is exposed. A bag would hold °ack so much good red pulp that the juice pressed out would be weak and pale. . . ■— I baptist w.m.s. meets I The Baptist W. M. S. met at; |pe church Monday p. m. with the president,Mrs. W.B.Roberts, i Presiding. The program on l acing the Needs in Our Own Community” was presented by l ;drs. E. W. Traylor. Those tak 'og part were Mrs. A.S. Gossett,! J. A. Beddingfield.and Mrs.; Annie Watson. The devotional was given by Mrs. J. P. Ether idge. The Sunbeams met at the same m e rs - A. C. Watts and Mrs. Emmit Akin in charge. i Houston Home Journal I HARVEST AND GIN COTTON PROPERLY j j Cotton should be harvested! I carefully and ginned properly to I secure the highest returns, E. C. West, cotton specialist of the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service, asserted this week. “Carefully harvested and gin ned cotton will bring from $5 to $2O more per bale than cotton which was taken to the gin while wet and ginned in a poorly equipped and inefficiently operat ed gin,” he continued. The condition of the cotton when it reaches the gin and the ginning are important factors in determining the quality of the ginned cotton.” Mr. Westbrook ; declared. “The cotton grower who delivers cotton to the gin in good, dry condition and free of i foreign matter and has his gin ning done at a wellequipped, efficiently operated gin will get better returns from his cotton.” If cotton must be picked while damp from rain or dew, spread it in the field to dry before haul • ing it to the gin, Mr. Westbrook advised. Cotton that is stored on the i farm should be protected against weather damage, he said. If cotton bales are allowed to lie out in the weather they may lose from one-fourth to three-fourths of their value. SERVICE MEN ANO WOMEN ‘Latest overseas assignment of Pfc. Ralph J, Locke, 20,0 f Route i No. 2 Perry, Ga., is with the , 75th Infantry Division in the As sembly Area Command, rede ploying American soldiers from Europe. Pfc. Locke, who Is the son of Mrs. Mattie Locke, is serving with the 898th Field Artillery Battalion, 75th Division. He is ■ stationed at Camp Atlanta, one of 17 redeployment centers in the Assembly Area near Reims. Landing in France in Decem . ber, 1944, the 75th spent 98 of its first 126 days on the conti nent in contact with the enemy and took nearly 21,000 prisoners. This soldier has battle stars for the Ardennes, the Rhineland and Central Europe Campaigns. Oth er awards and decorations in clude the Purple Heart and ■ Good Conduct Medal. Pfc. Harry Linton, Perry, Ga., has been returned to the Conti nental United States from the Pacific Ocean Areas under the Army’s readjustment program. His father is J. D. Linton, of Perry, Ga. Pfc. Linton came into the Ar my on Dec. 21, 1939, and has been overseas 56 months. He was with AAA Gun Bn. and had been through the Saipan cam pan and has been stationed on Saipan. 1 He has been awarded the Bat tle Star 1, WAYS TO VALUE FARMS , A new circular, designed to aid returning servicemen in purchas ing farms, was announced this week by the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service. Copies can be obtained from county agents throughout the state by request ing circular No. 332. Written by Kenneth Treanor, economist of the Extension Ser vice, the circular lists some of the things a returning service man thought about buying a farm,along with what he figured and how he decided. The circular tells of points to consider in purchasing a farm! land gives a detailed account of i I how to determine the real value lof the farm. It contains a space! | “for estimating the value of a farm of interest to you.” A similar table, filled out by the 'veteran, shows the factors to (consider in buying a farm. I 1 LUMBER NEEDED ! Greater production of lumber is essential to Winning the war, j foresters of the Agricultural Ex j tension Service point out. Saw log production must be vigorous ly continued throughout the sum !mer and fall if serious shortages and mill shut-downs are to be averted. Needs for lumber have 1 increased since V-E day. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY. AUGUST 16. 1945 (C.P. GRAY APPOINTED CM. I UNITED WAR FUND DRIVE Charles P. Gray, of Perry, has been selected as chairman for the 1945 United War Fund Cam paign in Houston county. The drive will start on October 1. The National War Fund is the financial agent of USO. United Seamen’s Service. War Prisoners Aid, China Relief, Philippine Re lief. and the other allied nations which have been run over by the enemy. The larger part of the money goes for the support of USO and USO Camp Shows. Owing to re deployment and the opening of large operations in the Pacific, the needs of USO are greater , than they have ever been. The amount allotted to relief work among the allies is smaller than in past years. USO, from its beginning in 1941, has had more than one bil lion visits to its installations from boys in the service and USO ' Camp Shows is now entertaining more than two million boys per week in camp show performances ! in all parts of the world where : our boys are stationed. Mr. Gray will soon announce ; his committees and complete 1 plans for a successful campaign ’ in October. The end of the war in Japan will not effect the needs of allied relief. The Army and the Navy have requested USO for continuance of operations for eighteen months after cessation of hostilities in Japan. The need will decrease gradually as our ; boys are brought home, i The slogan of the War Fund this year is: “Until the Stars • and Stripes Go Up On Every i Battlefront and Until the Ser vice Flags Come Down in Every ’ American Home —It’s Up To Us : To See It Through!” ADDITIONAL PERSONALS Mrs. A. C. Pritchett and son, ! Allen, Mrs. Russell Thompson, Mrs. Geo. Keeler, and Bobby ’ Satterfield left Wednesday for St. Simons Island, Ga. where Mrs. Pritchett will have a cot , tage until Sept. 1. Mrs. Everett Sammons and daughters, Martha and Eleanor, of Macon, will go | to St, Simons some time this month to visit Mrs. Pritchett. Mr. and Mrs. Mayo Davis and daughter, Billie, Jean Pierce, Jeggy Jo Mitchell, and Mr. and ; Mrs. L. C. Davis and daughter, > Sandra, of Cleveland, Tenn. will go to St. Simons next Wednes ’ day to share Mrs. Pritchett's cot tage for a week. ’ Mr. and Mrs. G. Francis Nunn | went to Clayton, Ga. last week | to spend ten days. Miss Jeanne Walters of Pitts i burg, Pa. is visiting her sister, Mrs. Joseph E. Larkin, and Sgt. • Larkin. Mr. J. J. Rooney and Mr. F. M. Houser spent Wednesday in 1 Atlanta. i Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Hardy, 1 Cpl. and Mrs. W. C. Beacham . and Miss Sue Webb have re i turned from a week’s visit to 1 Jacksonville Beach, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Carpenter 1 are on a vacation at Lakemont, Ga. i Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gilbert of Jacksonville, Fla. are visiting Mrs. H. T. Gilbert. Capt. W. J, Slappey, U. S.Ma rines Reserve, is visiting his mother, Mrs. W. J. Slappey Sr., I having recently returned from (two years in the Pacific war area {where he served on Pelilieu and (Okinawa Islands. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Harper (have returned from Lookout Mt. land Chattanooga, Tenn. They j were accompanied on their trip by their two daughters, Mrs. (Timothy E. Harrison and Miss ! Lois Harper, both of Macon, also | a granddaughter, Pearl Harper. j Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Greene Jr. announce the birth of a daugh ter, Mari Emily, on Sunday, Aug. ; 12, at the Middle Ga. hospital, Macon. Mrs. Greene was Miss Dorothy Slappey before her | marriage. i j Mrs, W. K. Whipple spent and Wednesday in 1 Thomson, Ga. with relatives. BIRTH REGISTRATION LAW I ; CALLS FOR DOUBLE RECORD' i Parents are responsible for • registering births under provis ions of the new Georgia vital i statistics '.aw which went into effect recently, i Designed to correct the weak spots in birth and death record |ing, the law provides dual reg istration, Parents must file the legal certificate of birth, and ; medical attendants must supply the medical record. It is believed that parent par ticipation will result in better and more accurate reporting, ac cording to the Georgia Depart ment of Public Health. Filing of a separate medical i report has two particular advan tages. First, it removes from i the legal certificate medical in formation useless to the lay per son. Second, because it is a con fidential report, physicians may record medical facts of public i health interest without prejudic ing the interests of patients. Vital statistics are important in i keeping tab on health conditions in the state and thus in planning health programs, and moderniz -1 ing the recording system is in ■ line with Georgia’s intensive i program of postwar planning, the ■ health department says, i The urgent need for improving 1 birth registration became sud denly apparent in 1940, when de ■ mands for copies of birth certi i ficates began to zoom. Requests i jumped from approximately 2,- • 000 in 1939 to 75.000 in 1942. Of the thousands of Georgians who had to prove their citizen ship, age or birthplace to get de ■ fense jobs or for other reasons, many discovered that their births had never been registered and i that they had to adopt the costly and time-consuming procedure of obtaining a delayed birth certi ficate. Much of the backlog of un registered births was due to the fact that Georgia didn’t have a functioning vital statistics act until 1919, but hundreds of per . sons born since 1919 also found . they weren’t listed in birth in ' dexes. The new law, adopted by the l 1945 General Assembly, provides , a penalty of $25 for neglecting , or refusing to comply with birth registration regulations. The law also provides for a central registry of marriage and divorce records. Thus records de stroyed or lost in the home coun ty can be replaced from the cen tral state office. A new stillbirth certificate re places the old procedure of filing both a death and birth certificate in cases of stillborn children. Full instructions and all neces sary supplies and forms have been mailed by the State Health Department to physicians, mid wives, ordinaries, clerks of court, local registrars and others con i cerned, so that there will be no delay in putting the law into effect. i —— Dr. Willie White Smith of 1 Wilmington, Delaware is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. K. Whipple, ■ and family. Miss Annis Jean NeSmith and Barbara Whipple are visiting ■ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Maxwell in ; Umatilla, Fla. Miss Dorothy Avera of Fort Valley, Ga. was the guest of Mr. i and Mrs. J. E. Stalnaker last week. Mrs. Joe E, Stalnaker and daughters, Betty and Jean, and Miss Dorothy Avera went to Mi ami, Fla. Monday to visit Mrs. ■ Stalnaker’s mother, Mrs. Ford, who is ill. Mrs. Martin Silcox and son, Martin, are visiting relatives in Virginia. i Mrs. A. W. Gillette of Dayto na Beach, Fla. is visiting her sister, Mrs. J, M, Tolleson, and family. Friends of Mr. J. M. Tolleson will be glad to learn that he is i improving following an opera ■ tion he underwent last week at Emory University hospital. Mr. T. R, Summers Jr. has a i position with the National Life Ins. Co. in Macon. j War Ends People Celebrate The people of Perry joined with the peoples of the United States and throughout the allied world in celebrating the allied victory over Japan when confir mation of this news came at 6 p. m., C. W. T. Tuesday. Aug. 14, after nearly five years of war and five days of suspense over Japan’s surrender. Pent-up emotion found vent in various ways. The fire siren, police siren, whistles, and noise makers of all kinds were sound ed. - A procession of cars with horns blowing traveled over the down-town streets for some time. The crowd gathered at the Court House square was jubilant but orderly. Somehow there seemed to be a feeling of rever ence and a sense of awe mingled with the outward expressions of rejoicing. The celebration was heart-felt and many silent pray ers of gratitude were said to Al mighty God who had made pos sible this victory. As the pastors of local churches were out of town, no public religious service was held but church bells were rung and the people praised God within their own hearts. Hopeful and happy were the loved ones of Major H. Parks Houser, who has been a prisoner of war of Japan for over three years, as they joined in the cele bration. Happiness and relief shone on the faces of mothers and wives of servicemen, some of whom could not restrain their tears of joy. There was no doubt of everybody’s rejoicing. Places of business in Perry were closed Wednesday in cele bration of Japan’s surrender. M. L. HICKSON NAMED SERVICEMAN AT USES Marcus L. Hickson Jr., of Fort Valley, has been appointed the new Acting Veterans Employ ment representative in the Unit ed States Employment Service offices, in Macon, W. H. Shiver, USES manager, has an nounced. Hickson, who was a petty offi cer 1 c, storekeeper, and receiv ed an honorable medical dis charge in June, 1943, will serve veterans of eight surrounding counties. The counties are Peach, Crawford, Monroe, Jasper,Jones, Twiggs, Houston and Bibb. He will work in cooperation with all agencies that handle veterans. “The primary job will be placing veterans in suitable employment and give them information need ed,” Shiver pointed out. Hickson is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Marcus L, Hickson Sr., Fort Valley. He graduated from Middle Georgia College, Cochran, in 1938 and joined the regular Navy in April. 1940. NEW CONSIITUIiCN MEANS VICTORY FOR PROGRESS Governor Ellis Arnall won a tremendous victory for his pro gram of state progress and ad vancement last week when, in the face of a campaign of oppo sition, upward of one hundred and twenty counties voted in fa vor of Georgia’s new constitu tion. The revised draft is re garded as placing this state in the vanguard of progress and enabling it to take advantage of the opportunities of the present day, especially the postwar period. The vote of the people in ap proving the new basic law and shelving the old was almost two to one in its behalf. Governor Arnall was highly elated over the outcome and the large benefits that will accrue to Georgia and its people as result of adoption of a modern, pro gressive state constitution. They go together ESTABLISHED 1870 CITY TAX RATE SET AT FIFTEEN MILLS The City of Perry officials have raised the city’s tax rate to 15 mills from 12>£ mills in order to meet increased operation costs and to make needed public im provements. In an effort to equalize assessments, the city council has found it neces sary to raise valuations of some city property, it was stated. The City of Perry with assis tance from Houston county will widen and re-surface Jernaghan street leading to the R.R. Depot. The contract for this work has been let to E. Jack Smith Co., which is at present re-surfacing the Perry-Fort Valley road. Plans have been made to pave Commerce street in the next few months. An effort is being made to get the state highway depart ment to pave this .street in order to relieve the traffic congestion on Carroll street which is also a state highway. Mayor Sam A. Nunn and the Council hope to be able to make improvements i n Evergreen Cemetery in the next few months. METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS Church School-10:15 a. m., Church Services, 11:30 a. m, and 8:00 p. rn. The pastor will preach at both services next Sunday. _ Sermon subjects are: Morning, “A Man Like A Tree;” Evening, “The Mystery Man.” Young People’s Service. G;3O p. m. Rev. J. B. Smith, Pastor. BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS Sunday School, 10:00 a. m. Training Union, 7:00 p. m. Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE Sunday School —10:15 a. m. Church Service —11:30 a. m. Owen Gumm Supply Pastor. OPA INFORMATION Gasoline A-16 coupons valid June 22 thru September 21. Good for (! gallons each. Rationing rules now require that every car owner write his license number and state in ad vance on all gasoline coupons in his possession. Processed Foods July 31. Blue Y-2 thru C-l valid thru Aug. 31. Blue D-l thru H-l valid thru Sept. 30. Blue J-l thru N-l valid thru Oct. 31. Blue P-1 thru T-l valid thru Nov. 30. Meats and Fats 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. Red F-l thru K-l valid thru Nov. 30. Sugar Sugar Stamp No. 36 good for 5 lbs, thru Aug. 31. Shoes Stamps 1,2,3,& 4 on“airplane” sheet in Book 3 now valid for one pair each. Make Ration Applications by mail. Save time and effort, PEACH PRODUCTION Peaches have been grown in North America since early colo nial times. Although not as hardy as apples and not adapted to the country’s semi-tropical areas, peaches will grow under as varied conditions as any other fruit tree. They are produced in every state in the Nation, al though they are of practically no importance in several northern states. Commercial production was started early in the 19th century in the mid-Atlantic coast' al states.