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VOL. LXXV. No. 11
Perry-graphs
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The quiet of the Houston
county country-side is a tremen
dously pleasing contrast to the
bomb shattered London area,
says Mrs. Gladys Kersey, the
British-born wife of Lloyd Ker
sey of Elko Route 1.
The Kerseys were in Perry
last weekend to shop and visit
friends.
Lloyd and his wife were mar
ried April 9, 1945, in England,
while he was serving with the
U. S. Army. They have made
no special plans for celebrating
their first anniversary next
month. They recalled that while
they were on their honeymoon
President Roosevelt died. Short
ly afterward came the news of
V-E Day.
After almost four weeks resi
dence in Elko, Mrs. Kersey sum
med up her opinion of the U. S.
like this: “I like it very much.”
Speaking with t. h e expected
broad “a” she said she was im-,
pressed with the abundance inj
the states of many things that
she had not seen in England for
years. She is from Worcester,
a suburb of London.
Like all Britishers, Mrs. Ker
sey loves her native England but
she is extremely happy in her
adopted country.
The Rev. Robert L. Crandall,
formerly of Fort Valley, who has
many friends in the vicinity of
Perry, has received a Navy cita
tion for “excellent service” as a
chaplain of a large aircraft car
rier, the Wasp. Rev. Mr. Cran
dall is canon of St. Phillips Ca
thedral in Atlanta.
School is Crowded
The housing famine in Perry
is bad enough but the shortage
of space in the school building
here makes the housing problem
seem insignificant. Citizens of
the county should take a look at
the crowded conditions their
children must face. Then they
would start making some plans
for adequate accomodations for
the citizens of tomorrow.
Talking about the school situa
tion, H. L. Wingate, president of
the Georgia Farm Bureau Fed
eration, told the Kiwanis club
Tuesday that Georgia must in
crease teachers’ salaries by 50
per cent this year or face the
most serious shortage of teacher
personnel in history. He said it
was a shame that the base pay
of Georgia teachers is only $75 a
month and posed the question,
“How many boys and girls
graduating from college will
want to come home to teach at
that salary,” Georgia needs 5,-
000 teachers next year and pros
pects now indicated that less
than 400 will be available.
Georgia must do something
about this situation, and quickly.
Welcome Home
John S. Childs. Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. John S. Childs, Sr., of
Kathleen, has been discharged
from the Navy.
Carlton Hicks, son of Mr. and
Mrs. G- W. Hicks has been dis
charged from the Army and is
returning to his job at George C.
Nunn and Son.
Harris Chapman, who kept
Uncle Sam’s airplanes going in
several overseas theatres, has re
ceived his discharge from the
Army aad is employed by An
drew Hardware Co.
Bobby Hollzclaw, recently dis
charged from the U. S. Army,
has accepted a position in the
laboratory of the Penn-Dixie Ce
ment Corp. at Clinchfield.
Herman Taylor Davis, AMM3c,
of Elko received an honorable
discharge from the U. S. Navy
at Jacksonville, Fla., on March 4
and has returned home. He had
been in the service since Sept.
1, 1943.
Pvt. Clifford Crenshaw, Elko
Route 1, son of A. C. Crenshaw,
has been discharged from the U.
S. Army.
And Good Luck.
Jack Wilson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Wilson of Perry, and
Wendell Lee Taylor, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Taylor of Clinch
field, have enlisted in the Navy.
Houston Home Journal
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Trustee Boards
Are Appointed
Dr. J, L. Gallemore has been
appointed a member of the Board
of Trustees of Perry High School,
replacing Dr. H. P. Dobbins, who
resigned, it was announced by
S. W. Hickson, county school
superintendent.
Mr. Hickson announced the
boards of trustees for each school
in the county. Under a new law
passed in the last session of the
legislature, trustees are appoint
ed by the county boards of edu
cation and not elected by the
people as formerly. The provis
ion that a board of trustees
would have jurisdiction over an
entire district also was changed.
Under the new system a board is
appointed for each school. The
terms are for four years.
Here are the trustees for all
Houston County schools'-
Perry—L. M. Paul, G.C.Nunn,
D. M. Ryle, G. W. Hicks, J. L.
Gallemore,
Bonaire—C. L. Kersey, Claude
Watson, Geo. E. Perdue, Jr.
Centerville—W. N. Johnson,
Clarence Holt, F. W. Carter.
Elko—J. E. Eason, Rhodes Se
well, J. B. Hancock.
Grovania —C. E. Pyles, S. J.
Ellis, Walter Owens.
Hayneville —D. H. Daoiel, L.
M. McCormick, Bob Edmondson.
Henderson—B. H. Newberry,
J. L. Davis, W. B. Hodge.
Warner Robins—C. R. Rader,
R. R. Pratt, J. O. Jacobs, S. W.
Barr, Tom J. Cater,
Funeral Is Held
For W. T. Hill
Funeral services for William
T. Hill, Jr., 57, a resident of
Perry for the last 20 years, were
held Sunday afternoon at Memo
rial Chapel, Perry, with the Rev.
J. A. Ivey, pastor of the Perry
Baptist Church, officiating. In
terment was in Harmony ceme
tery, near Unadilla.
Mr. Hill, an employee of Penn-
Dixie Cement Corporation at
Clinchfield, died Saturday morn
ing at the Naval Hospital in
Dublin after an illness of two
months.
He was born in Bleckley Coun
ty and spent his youth in Haw
kinsville. He was a veteran of
World War I. serving in the
Motor Transport Corps, and was
a member of the Robert D. Col
lins Post of the American Legion
at Perry and of the Perry Bap
tist Church.
Survivors are his wife, the
former Miss Lillian Crane of
Paducah. Ky.; a son, W. T. Hill,
Jr., Perry; four brothers, E, C
Hill of Pineview; Geo. M. Hill of
Lyons; Alger Hill of Unadilla;
Alonzo Hill of Warner Robins;
three sisters, Mrs. G. L. Over
street, Mrs. L. D. Sheldon and
Mrs. Isaac Stokes, all of Haw
kinsville.
Pallbearers were Hugh Arm
strong, Price Satterfield, D. M.
Ryle, J. A. Grubb, C. E. An
drew, and J. M. Taylor.
BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Morning Worship Service 11:30.
Evening Worship 7:30 p. m.
Sunday School, 10:15 a. m.
Training Union, 6:30 p. m.
Rev J. A. Ivey, Pastor.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 14. 1946
Mrs. Wellons
Dies at Age 93
Mrs. Nancy Blewster Wellons,
who planned “to make a quilt
when I get old,” died Monday
morning at the age of 93 in the
house she had lived in for the
last 59 years,
Mrs. Wellons would have been
94 on April 7. She was born in
Crawford County April 7, 1852,
and had lived in Perry for the
last 62 years. She was baptized
as a Baptist 67 years ago and
was a member of Perry Baptist
Church for 62 years. She w-as a
charter member of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy at
Perry, She was the oldest resi
dent of Houston County.
Mrs. Wellons was confined to
her home during the last two
years but she was a busy woman
in a quiet way. She owned farm
and residental property in Perry
and conducted her business af
fairs from her sick bed. She of
ten remarked that she was sav
ing quilt scraps because “I am
going to make a quilt when I
get to be an old woman.” That
was her attitude to the last.
Her husband, Edward Shelly
Wellons, died in 1901, served as
county school superintendent of
Houston County.
Mrs. Wellons was the mother
of 12 children, six of whom sur
vive, They are Mrs. J. V. Wal
lace of Atlanta, Mrs. E. C. Lev
erette of Warner Robins, Miss
Kate Wellons of Perry, Mrs, S.
G. Rogers of Miami, Fla., Mrs.
J. L. Riley of Uniontown, Pa.,
and Tom B. Wellons of Perry.
She had 16 grandchildren and 13
great grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs, Wel
lons were held Wednesday after
noon at the Perry B a"p ti s t
Church, with the Rev. J. A. Ivey
officiating. Burial was in Ever
green Cemetery at Perry.
Pallbearers were W. Tom Mob
ley, Alton Hardy, W. K. Whip
ple, C. E. Andrew,Cooper Jones,
Walter Riley, W. E. Beckham
and Cater Rogers.
Overseas Veterans
To Meet Tonight
About 30 overseas veterans
from Houston County will meet
at the American Legion Home at
8:15 pm tonight to formally or
ganize a county post of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars.
G. T. Pierce, Jr., who has been
selected by state VFW organi
zation to take lead in the forma
tion of the local post, Said that
30 veterans already have signed
up and prospects for additional
members are good.
The veterans will elect officers,
choose a name for the post and
set up a formal organization.
Ration Book Lost?
If you’ve lost your ration book
or want a new one for the latest
addition to your family, applica
tion must be made to the Atlan
ta district office of the Office of
Price Administration,
The local OPA office closed on
January 31. Applications should
be sent to the following address:
Office of Price Administration,
Atlanta District Office, 44 Pryor
Street, Atlanta 3, Ga.
The new sugar stamp for can
ning sugar became available
March 11.
Vets Offered Farmer Training
Perry Loses
to Canton,
41 16 28
The biggest team won.
That tells the story of the
Perry-Canton game in the State
Basketball Tournament in Macon
last Thursday night, when the
North Georgians defeated the
Panthers, 41 to 28.
Size of the Canton players
spelled the difference between
them and the local five; there
seemed to be no difference in the
ability or the training of the two
teams. The Perry boys failed to
get their shooting eye on the
Mercer goals and missed many
shots that they would have sunk
in average games.
After Canton defeated Perry,
basketball observers figured Can
ton would win the B Group tour
nament without any trouble.
Tucker, however, upset Canton
on Friday night and then Ross
ville, favored to win the Lower
Bracket, defeated Tucker on Sat
urday night to win the B Group
crown.
Rubber Pierce, captain of the
Perry team, was chosen on the
All State Team for B schools.
Three Back Next Year
Montezuma, the Third Dis
trict’s C winner, cooled off in the
finals and fell back before the
attack of.'Greenville, 42 to 31.
From this year’s varsity,Coach
E. P. Staples will have three
veterans returning next season:
Clint Cooper, Billy Bledsoe and
Ed Thompson.
Lineups
Canton Hi. (41) Perry Hi. (28)
Pos.
Edwards (13 F Thompson (3)
Beavers F Cooper (5)
Huey (17) C Pierce (16)
Tippens (4) G Bledsoe (1)
McClure (4) G Ogletree (3)
Score by quarters:
Canton High 12 27 33 41
Perry High 8 12 23 28
Substitutions: Canton High —
Johnson (1), Cagle (2), Lawton,
Hicks, White; Perry—D. Whip
ple, Calhoun, Watts, Norwood.
Merchants Study
Problem of Alleys
Maintenance of adequate alley
space in the busidess district of
Perry occupied the attention of
downtown property owners at a
meeting at City Hall last Friday
night.
Mayor G. F. Nunn explained
the problem to the property own
ers, explaining that present and
contemplated buildings threaten
to cut off many establishments
from loading facilities and garb
age disposal. The mayor em
phasized that the city was not
sponsoring any movement to
force property owners to permit
maintenance of alleys but that
the city officials felt that the
property owners should consider
a plan now to alleviate the crowd
ed condiditions already existing
in the back alleys downtown.
May Lose Traffic
He called the attention of the
merchants to the possibility of
re-routing highway traffic around
Perry because of the traffic haz
ards caused by loading and un
loading trucks on Carroll Street,
the main thoroughfare in Perry.
The unpleasant prospect of re
moving garbage through the
front doors of stores and cafes
also was offered as a possible re
suls of closing up alleys.
The property owners expressed
a willingness to cooperate with
city officials in the movement to
keep the alleys open. It was in
dicated that additional discus
sions of the problem will be held.
When the town was laid out,
no provision was made for alley
ways behind stores and individ
uals actually own that part of
the land now being used as alleys.
The mayor and council have
adopted the attitude that the
city hall will contribute toward
reducing the burden placed upon
I the property owners.
REV. ROY McTIER
Methodists Open
Revival Services
The Rev. Roy McTier, pastor
of the Moultrie Methodist
Church, began a series of revival
services at the Perry Methodist
Church last night. The services
will be held at 10:15 am and 7:30
pm each day through March 22,
it was announced by the Rev. J.
B. Smith, pastor.
The Rev. Comer Woodall, pas
tor of the Elko Methodist Church,
will lead the song services and
direct special programs for chil
dren and young people. Each
day, Rev. Mr. Woodall will hold
a Children’s Service at 3:30 pm.
A special meeting of the Meth
odist Youth Fellowship will be
held at 5:30 pm Sunday, when
Miss Emily Britton, a Wesleyan
student who is the MYF Confer
ence president, and Mr. Woodall
will be in,charge of the program.
Fat Cattle Show
Scheduled Friday
More than 50 Hereford, Angus
and Shorthorn cattle will be en
tered in the eighth annual Hous
ton County Fat Cattle Show on
Friday by 33 county boys and
girls.
It was originally annouaced
that the show would be held near
the Courthouse Square but a
change has been made and the
animals will be shown in the va
cant lot south of Davis Ware
house Company’s gin. The show
will begin at II am.
Nine members <>t f.hn Future
Farmers of America will enter 18
animals, 9 Herefords and 9 An
gus: 14 4-H Club boys and girls
wdl enter 23 animals, 15 Here
ford, 6 Angus, and 2 Shorthorn.
The show is being sponsored
by the Perry Kiwanis Club and
the Houston County Farmer Bu
reau in cooperation with the
county agents and the senior vo
cational agriculture teacher.
The Negro county agent will
have about 10 colored 4-H boys
showing 15 Hereford steers.
About $2OO in cash prizes will
be given the winners.
James H. Watson
Drowning Victim
Funeral services for James
Henry Watson of Warner Rob
ins, who was drowned Sunday
while on a fishing trip near Cor
dele, were held Tuesday morning
at the Perry Memorial Chapel
and burial was in the Orange
Hill Cemetery at Hawkinsville.
Mr. Watson was manager of
Pratt’s Service Station at Warner
Robins for the last two months.
He was employed at the Warner
Robins Air Technical Service
Command during the war and
prior to that he was a merchant
at Bonaire.
Survivors include his wife,Mrs.
Leita Milam Watson; two sons,
James H. Watson, Jr,, and
Charles M. Watson, Warner Rob
ins; his mother, Mrs. J. H. Wat
son, Bonaire: a sister, Mrs. Doro
thy W. Briggs, Warner Robins;
and five brothers, Claude of Bon
aire, Leon C. of Kathleen, Edgar
of Irvington, N, C., Barney L. of
Wrightsville and George E. Wat
son of Fernandina, Fla.
ESTABLISHED 1870
Meeting Set
March 18
At School
Veterans interested in partici
pating in the Fanner Training
for Veterans Program have been
asked to meet at the Perry High
School auditorium at 8 p. m.
Monday, March 18, to learn the
details of the project.
S. W. Hickson, County School
Superintendent, announced that
invitations to the meeting have
been directed to about 200 vet
erans in Houston County, A
representative of the Veterans
Administration and John Ether
edge, vocational agriculture
teacher, will outline the program,
which is sponsored jointly by the
State Department of Education
and the Veterans Administration,
To Get Teacher
If 30 or more Houston County
veterans indicate a desire to par
ticipate, vocational teacher
will be employed full time. The
program calls for 200 hours of
classroom activity per year, for
three years. It is not necessary
for the three years to be con
secutive. A veteran can take
his three years of classroom
work during a nine-year period,
and he may enter the program at
anytime within four years from
the date of his discharge. Ciass
room work will cover all approv
ed farming practices.
The veteran will receive a sum
each month for his participation
in the program, Interested vet
erans will be selected by the
county agent, the soil conserva
tionist, an AAA representative,
an FSA representative and the
senior vocational agriculture
teacher.
Plans also are being made to
bring Negro veterans in the
county under a similar program.
Blue Lupine Day
Held in Dooly
Over 225 farmers and Soil Con
servation District Supervisors at
tended the Blue Lupine Day
celebration in Dooly County last
Friday and heard Dr. T. S. Buie,
regional conservator, Soil Con
servation Service, speak on Blue
Lupine and its Future Possi
bi 1 ties.
J. B. Walton, Supervisor of
the Middle Western Ocmulgee
River Soil Conservation District
opened the meeting and present
ed A. C. Richardson, president
of the State Association of Soil
Conservation Districts, who pre
sided.
S. W. Hickson of Perry, Chair
man of the board of Supervisors
for the Middle Western Ocmul
gee River Soil Conservation Dis
trict, introduced Dr. Buie. Oth
ers present from Houston Coun
ty were Greer Hicks, Harry Du
mas, James Johnston, Jack Mil
ler, Wayne Garrison and W. C.
Huggins.
A goal for harvesting more
than one million pounds of Blue
Lupine seed this spring has been
set for Houston County.
Softball Season
To Open March 31
Softball is just around the
corner.
E. P. Staples, chairman of the
Boys and Girls committee of the
Kiwanis club, announced that all
men, regardless of age or physi
cal condition, who desire to play
softball this year, should regis
ter with the committee before
March 24 so that teams can be
formed for the opening of the
season on March 31.
Mr. Staples said those inter
ested should contact Emmit Ak
in, Akin Drug Co.; Watt Boler,
Houston Drug Co., or any of the
following committee members;
E. P. Staples, Francis Nunn, Al
dine Lasseter, Alton Hardy,
Cooper Etheridge or John Ether
edge.
Four or six teams will comprise
the league, depending on the
number of available players by
March 24.
