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VOL. LXXIV. No. 48
CITY ELECTION TO
BE HELD HERE DEC. 4
A City Election will be held
Tuesday, Dec, 4, in Perry to
elect a mayor and four council
men. Candidates for these of
fices must qualify in writing at
the City Hall by 6 p. m. on Fri
day, Nov. 23, ten days prior to
the election. '
George Francis Nunn has
qualified for mayor to succeed
Sam A. Nunn who has stated
that he is not a candidate to suc
ceed himself. Sam A. Nunn has
served as mayor for the past
seven years and G. F. Nunn, on
the city council for the past five
years.
Alton Hardy and Joe A. Bed
dingfield are candidates for
councilraen to succeed them
selves. F. M. Houser has quali
fied for councilman to succeed G.
F. Nunn. Hugh Lawson, who is
in the U. S. Array, has resigned
his place on the council. Edward
D. Mason is a candidate to suc
ceed Hugh Lawson.
The election will be held at the
City Hall. Polls will open at 8
a. m. and close at 6p. m. Only
those qualified to vote in the last
General Election will be qualified
to vote in this City Election.
ELECTION OF COMMITTEEMEN
FOR COUNTY TO BE HELD SOON
Houston county farmers will
take time out from seasonal work
during the coming week to elect
AAA community and county
committeemen for the 1946 pro
gram year.
One or more community com
mitteemen and one alternate, as
well as a delegate to the county
convention, will be chosen in
each of the county’s ten farming
communities. The delegates
will later elect the three-man
committee which will administer
AAA activities within the coun
ty.
Chairman L. W. Tabor, of the
county AAA committee, said to
day that dates, hours, and places
for holding the annual election
are now being determined. Each
farmer in Houston county will be
notified of the time and place
this election will be held in his
community.
In Houston county, Mr. Tabor
said, approximately 750 farmers
are eligible to vote on committee
men this year, “Eligible” farm
ers are those who participated in
the 1945 agricultural conserva
tion, or crop insurance program.
The county AAA chairman, in
reminding Houston county farm
ers of the forthcoming ballot, ap
pealed for full participation.
“Solution of the postwar prob
lems ahead of us is the vital con
cern of every farmer. Conse
quently, it is to his own best in
terest to vote in the coming
elections—to make sure that the
men administering the AAA pro
grams in the county are the ones
he wants to represent him.”
BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Perry Baptist church had
a Youth Day observance last
Sunday. At the morning ser
vice, Rev. Glendon McCollough,
state secretary of the Royal Am
bassadors, the boys’ group of the
church, was the speaker.
At the evening service, a Bap
tist Student Union from Mercer
University presented a program
of music and devotional talks.
These twenty-five Mercer stu
dents were entertained at supper
at the church prior to the
meeting.
Tuesday night, the deacons
and representatives of the W. M.
S. had a meeting to discuss
plans for enlarging the Sunday
school plant and for building a
new parsonage.
Morning Worship Service 11:30.
Evening Worship 7:30 p. m.
Sunday School, 10:00 a. m.
Training Union, 6:30 p. m.
Rev J, A. Ivey, Pastor.
COTTON REPORT
Census report shows that 818
bales of cotton were ginned in
Houston county from the crop of
1945 prior to Nov. 1 as compared
with 1,954 bales for the crop
of 1944.
Houston Home Journal
HOUSTON TEACHERS HAVE I
MEETING AT PERRY SCHOOL
. Perry school was host to all
the teachers in Houston county
tor a county-wide teachers meet-!
mg and barbecue Thursday,Nov.
15, at four o’clock. This was the
first county-wide meeting uf the
year and it got off to a good
start.
I J. L. Yaden, executive secre
tary of the Teacher-Retirement
System for Georgia, spoke on
the new retirement law. He led
the teachers in a discussion and
answered many questions about
retirement. '
Mrs. J. O. Coleman, president
of the Houston County Unit of
the Georgia Education Associa
tion, made up of teachers from
Henderson, Elko, G r o v a n i a,
Hayneville, Centerville, and
at the meeting.
The meeting opened with sing
ing and Eric Staples, superinten
dent of the Perry school extend
ed welcome. After the wel
come, Mrs. Coleman presented
S. W. Hickson, county school su
perintendent, and he made a few
remarks reminding the teachers
of progress being made in our
schools. Mrs. Coleman also
recognized Miss Neta McFee,
visiting teacher, Mrs. T.C.Mayo,
clerk of Houston County Board
of Education and Miss Editha
Barnes. After a brief session of |
business, Mrs. Coleman turned:
the meeting over to Mr. Staples j
who introduced Mr. Yaden, the!
speaker.
Mr. Yaden has been a promi
nent educator in our state for a
long number of years and he
complimented Mr. Hickson on
having a group of teachers high
above the average. He was very
much impressed with the school
plant, particularly the library
and science labratory.
After the talk in the auditori
um, the teachers were carried
into the school cafeteria for the
barbecue. The cafeteria was
beautifully decorated in the
Thanksgiving motif. The food
was served by several high
school boys and girls.
Beautiful fall flowers through
out the school were arranged by
the Perry teachers.
The eighty white teachers in
the Houston County School Sys
tem teach in Perry, Warner Rob
ins, Bonaire, Centerville, Elko,
Henderson, Hayneville, and
Grovania,
BASKET-BALL SPOTLIGHT
By G. F. NUNN
;
In the ball game of the year
thus far, the Panthers were
forced to accept a 33-31 defeat at
the hands of the veteran Coch
ran team when they journeyed to
Cochran last Friday evening. At
the end of a very close ball
game the score was tied at 29
for each team, and the ensuing
extra period saw the Cochran
lads score four points against
two for the Panthers to grab the i
victory.
Playing magnificent ball for
three quarters, the Cochrans
managed to hold a slight egde at
the end of each quarter, but in
the fourth period, the Perry
boys really showed what kind of
stuff they were made of, as led
by the superb performance of
Capt. Bubber Pierce, they tied
the score to force the game into
extra time.
Capt. Pierce was easily the
outstanding player of both teams
as he hit the netting for nine
teen points, but to say that he |
was a one man team would be a I
grave injustice to four other fine!
lads whoffought their hearts out!
against a team which appeared a
shade stronger throughout.
The deciding came in the in-i
ability of the Panthers to con-]
nect on their free shots,as they
scored only three out,of a total
of fifteen tries, while Cochran,
having only five tries, made
three of them good. But such is
the saga of the hardwoods, and
it can do nothing toward trans
ferring that game to the win
column to examine the records in
that department.
Before this paper reaches you,
the Panthers will have engaged
the big red team from Marshall
ville, and here’s hoping we will
have resumed our victory string.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1945
Buy Victory Bonds Regularly
Hold Them; Here's What Happens
| [weekly SAVINGS AND INTEREST ACCUMULATED
Savings | n Year In 5 Years In 10 Years
$3.75 $195.00 $1,004.20 $2,163.45
6.25 325.00 1,674.16 3,607.54
12.50 650.00 3,348.95 7,217.20
18.75 975.00 5,024.24 10,828.74
WASHINGTON, D. C.—War Finance officials said here that weekly
savings invested in Victory Bonds—s3.7s per week—for one year will
total enough to make a down payment on a home. The timetable shows
other small savings and their future values.
The Precious Price —Spellman
Endless rows of Crosses and of stars that dot the earth
From end to end.
Thousands of mangled and wounded in hospitals -
' And homes.
These, the precious price paid for our peace.
In ThanliSgiving to them,
Let us shoulder our share of the cost of war
In Victory Bonds.
Francis J. Spellman
The moat Rev., Archbishop of New York and
! f - Military Vicar of the U. S. Armed forces.
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I SERVICE MEN UNO WOMEN
j With The Army Forces, West
ern Pacific, Manila—Pfc, Robert
F. Pyles, who hails from Elko,
Ga. is attached to the 29th Re
placement Depot, near here,
where he is awaiting transporta
tion to the United States and
subsequent discharge from the
Army,
Pfc. Pyles, the son of Mr. and
Mrs, C. E. Pyles of Route No. 1,
Elko, attended high school in
Perry and was in the farming
'business with his father.
Inducted into the Army in
August 1945, Pyles was trained
at Camp Wheeler, Ga. and sailed i
overseas from San Francisco, j
Since that time he has served on i
Luzon in the Philippine Islands, j
His overseas service has earned j
him the Asiatic-Pacific and Phil- i
ippine Liberation Campaign Rib-'
bons. He also wears the Ex- j
pert Infantry Badge.
BOOK CLUB MEETS
I The Book Club met Tuesday
I afternoon at the home of Mrs. J.
!M. Gooden with Mrs. S. L. Nor-i
wood Jr. as co-hostess. Mrs. W.
E. Marshall Jr., president, pre
sided.
“Earth and High Heaven” by
■ G. Graham, was reviewed by
Mrs. C. H. Tucker. “Now that
! April’s There”.by Daisy Newman j
I was the subject of Miss Mary'
:|Lee Greene’s review.
II Refreshments were served af-j
!ter the program.
i
Miss Nan Thompson, freshman |
of the Univ, of Ga., Athens,;
spent the weekend with her par-i
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry V. i
iThompson. She came to attend
the wedding of her sister, Miss
Emily Thompson, .and Mr. Jackj
Stalnaker which took place Sun-i
day, Nov. 18.
METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
The stewards had a meeting
[Wednesday night last week and
I voted unanimously to purchase
an organ for the church. Rev.
J, B. Smith, Mayo Davis, and A.
j W. Dahlberg were named as the
! organ committee.
Church School—10:15 a. m,
Church Services, 11:30 a. m.
and 7:30 p. m.
young People’s Service, 6:30
p. m.
Rev. J. B. Smith, Pastor.
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| V' . .i ■ ■ i
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To the People
of this Community
| Thanksgiving is In the air. The
! spirit of the Good Provider hugs you
warmly. What better time or reason
[ to buy another extra Victory Bond,
the good pro
vider of the fu
ture? As y° u
glt around the
# festive table
this year, first
year of world
peace since
1939, remember
the millions of \
men and worn- j
en still In uni- j
form In strange lands. In Germany |
about 2,500,000 Americans will be i
separated on this family holiday
from fathers, mothers, brothers, sls
-1 ters, wives, sweethearts and children. ,
j Every extra Victory Bond is a link
I between home and the Tokyo or
i Berlin patrol.
{ There’s self-interest in your pur
chase of any extra bond today but
there’s service to your country too.
1 You have most to gain by owner
ship of as many Victory Bonds as
! you can possibly buy. You guarantee
! yourself a better chance for personal
peace and prosperity. You also help
your government to pay the war
costs and setum home of men and
women who will be badly missed
Thanksgiving Day in your own home j
and your home.
1 THE EDITOR i
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LEGION AUXILIARY SPONSORS
I MS BOXES FOR HOSPITALS
I
I ■
! The Auxiliary to the Robert D.
I Collin? Post. American Legion,
will pack Christmas boxes for
soldiers in the Robins Field hos
pital. Anyone desiring to con
tribute a box or supplies for a
box is requested to contact Mrs.
Joe Mitchell, president of the
Auxiliary, before Dec. 6.
These Christmas boxes for
Robins Field hospitalized service
men will be prepared and pre
sented by the Auxiliary as its
participation in the nationwide
“Gift for Yanks Who Gave”
campaign for Christmas. The
public is being asked to con
tribute packages for the boxes.
Gift suggestions are:
Books—mysteries, classics, Bi
bles, comics, dictionaries, west
erns, humor, pocket size books
best. No War Stories.
Stationery and Games —Games,
playing cards, checker boards,
chess sets, cribbage sets, folding
writing pads, air-mail stationery.
Fountain pens, pencils, address
books, razor blades, pipes, to
bacco, cigars, cigarettes, pipe
icleaners, sun glasses, wash
cloths, and foot powders.
For thousands of men, the war
did not end with V-E and V-J
Days. Through this Gift Pro
gram, the American Legion and
Auxiliary extend an opportunity
to all the people of America to
express their gratitude to those
men who have sacrificed so much
by helping to make their 1945
Christmas holidays brighter.
FARM BUREAU MEMBERSHIP
DRIVE MAKING PROGRESS
“Georgia counties have already
reported a membership of 27,500
in the Georgia Farm Bureau
Federation,” declared Plerbert
E. Woodruff, director of organi
zation and research, at the con
clusion of the state convention
held in Macon last week, “and
when the present drive ends on
November 30, I am expecting the
total to reach 35,000.”
At Friday’s session cf__the
state convention more than 3,000
farmers gathered in Macon’s
Municipal Auditorium to hoar the
outstanding portion of the two
day program when addresses
were delivered by U. S. Secre
tary of Agriculture Clinton P.
Anderson, Governor Ellis Arnall
and President H. L. Wingate.
Bursts of enthusiasm swept
through the huge bowl-shaped
assembly hal 1 during the entire
session, reaching a climax when
the Governor of Georgia and the
cabinet official urged farmers to
organize for the purpose of pro-'
tecting the interests of those
who till the soil.
“Membership reports for the
year,” Mr. Wyodruff continued,
have passed all previous enroll
ments by large margins,” and'
he urged county and community
chapters to “contact every non
member between now and No
vember 30 and by the end of the
fiscal year we can point with
justifiable pride to the realiza
tion of our 1945 motto of ‘This is
the year we have built a Farm
Bureau in Georgia,’ ”
Mr. Woodruff stated that
“counties all over the state are
conducting intensive drives with
committees in each neighborhood
calling on farm people to come
into the organization and help
protect the prices of agricultural
products.” The director of or
ganization pointed to the fact
that “farmers realize as never
before the need for a unified ef
fort to protect the welfare of
•their families, and they are con
jfident that this protection can
icome about only through
I strengthening the Georgia Farm
Bureau Federation by enrolling
jevery non-member by the end of
I this month.”
I Mr. Woodruff has visited every
I county in the state in the inter
est of organizing farmers,and he
jis familiar with plans for con
duction of membership drives
during the remaining days of the
fiscal year. The organization
director will contact many of the
counties of the state before No
vember 30, and he expressed
. confidence that many of the cur
rent membership campaigns will
! result in several new counties
i reaching 20 and 40 per cent goals
at the end of the fiscal year,
ESTABLISHED 1870
DEMONSTRATION OF
DEHYDRATOR,NOV.26
Representatives of agricultural
interests of all the Southeastern
States from Virginia to Texas
are among 7,000 farm leaders in
cited to be the guests of the
Perry Kiwanis club at a barbecue
and dehydrator demonstration
here November 26.
Sam Nunn, mayor of Perry,
will be master of ceremonies and
a three-ring circus tent will pro
tect the guests in case of rain.
Paul W. Chapman, dean of the
College of Agriculture, Universi
ty of Georgia, will speak on
“More and Better Livestock
Feed Through the Process of
Dehydration,” Other speakers
will include Paul DeLeon, of
Cleaver-Brooks Company; W. H.
Barnwell, manager of the Geor
gia Power Company’s Industrial
Divison; Charles Farmer of By
ron, and W. T. Bennett, direc
tor of agricultural development
of the Central of Georgia Rail
road.
A huge dehydrator, built by
the Cleaver-Brooks Company, of
Milwaukee, will be given its first
public demonstration. It has
been operating experimentally on
a farm here for the past 12
months. During that time, it
has successfully converted green
oats, oats and vetch, peavine,
kudzu, green corn including
stalks, lespedeza, cowpea hulls
and other field crops into dry
feed with a protein content com
parable to that of imported al
falfa hay. It also converts sweet
potatoes into a feed equivalent
in nutritional value to dry corn.
The capacity of the dehydrator is
one ton of dry feed per hour,
Mr. Barnwell, through whose
efforts the dehydrator was
brought here, stated that the
widespread use of these ma
chines might will bring about a
revolution in Georgia agriculture.
“In many ways,” Mr. Barn
well said, “Georgia is ideally
suited to the production of beet
cattle and dairy products. How-*
ever, we have never produced
enough dry feed and have had to
import 1,280,000 tons each year
from other parts of the country.
Because of the high cost of this
imported feed, we have never
been able to compete with other
sections of the country in raising
livestock.
“The standard carbohydrate,
or fattening feed, for all live
stock is dry corn. In the Mid
western corn belt, the produc
tion averages approximately 40
bushels per acre, while in Geor-
I gia we average about 10 bushels
per acre. Dehydrated sweet po
tatoes are equal to dry corn and
right here in Georgia we can
' produce the equivalent of 70
bushels of corn per acre on any
reasonably good land. Thus the
tremendous advantage which the
Midwest has enjoyed will disap
pear with the widespread use of
the dehydrator.
“Likewise by drying green le
guminous crops such as lespede
za, kudzu. clovers, vetch and
others, we can become indepen
dent of imported alfalfa hay.
By using cow pea hulls and simi
lar by-products Georgia farmers
can obtain high quality stock
feed from materials which for
merly went to waste.”
Mr. Barnwell said one or more
dehydrators should be establish
ed in every Georgia county to
process the locally grown field
crops. They could be operated
either by co-operative groups of
farmers or by individuals.
TAX PAYERS’ NOTICE
The 1945 State and County Tax
Books are open and ready for
collection. Your promptness in
paying your Tax will be appre
ciated.
M. E. AKIN, Tax Collector
Houston County.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Baptist W.M.S. will have
a mission study at the church
Tuesday, Nov. 27, beginning at
2:30 p. m. Mrs. R. L. Harvey
of Fort Valley will be the teach
er and “Victory unto Victory” is
the book to be studied.
Mrs. Mildred E. Schnell visit
ed Dr. and Mrs. Lee Evans in
Tifton Sunday.
