Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, June 06, 1946, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextAn Old Newspaper Of the New South VOL. LXXV. No. 22 promotions Given In Scout Troop At a recent Board of Review there were five promotions and 05 Merit Badges awarded to members of Troop 96 of Perry. Leading the list of advance ments was Rhett Milam, Jr., who went up for Life Scout, which is next to the highest rank in Scouting. Next in line was the iroop Scribe. Horace Matthew's, who went up for Star Scout, Climbing the second rung of the Scouting ladder were Frank Douglas, Paul Middlebrooks and Harris Satterfield who were pro moted from Tenderfoot Scout to Scond Class Scouts. Badges Presented After much study and hard work the following boys qualified for and received the following Merit Badges: Horace Mattews, Home Repairs: Rhett Milam, Jr., Athletics. Bird Study, Textiles; Bobby Sutton, Handicraft. Stamp Collecting and Bird Study: Billy Brooks, Pathfinding and Home Repairs; Billy King, Pathfinding and Home Repairs: Frank Douglas Home Repairs;Jack Hardy,Home Repairs and Hand Carving. Bobby Satterfield, Public Health, Personal Health and Bird Study; Allen Tabor, Civics, Marksmanship and First Aid; Allen Pritchett, Safety, Public Health, and First Aid; Bobby- Brooks, Public Health, Reading and Woodcarv ing; Herchel Thompson, Horse manship and Gardening; Billy Whipple, Pioneering and Per sonal Health; Plerschel Lawhorn, First Aid and Gardening; Hentz Houser, Civics, Gardening and First Aid. Members of the Board of Re view were D. M. Ryle, chairman of the board, an J ohn Ether edge and Bill Marshall. Fine Record This is a fine record for any troop and shows results of much, interest and hard work on thej part of both Scouts and the peo-j pie of Perry. My congratulations to all these fine Boy Scouts and their par ents. Summer will scon be here, which means summer camp, so why not start making plans to spend at least one week at camp. Will you be on the list when the next Board of Review is sent in to the headquarters of the Central Georgia Council? I hope so. Jesse R. Gunn, Field Scout Executive. Methodist Activities Bishop Costen J. Harrell, resi dent bishop of the Birmingham Area of the Methodist Church and former pastor of West End Church in Nashville, Tenn., will he the speaker over an indepen dent network of 38 stations on h h e Methodist Hour Sunday morning, June 9. . He will use as his sermon sub ject, The Question Supreme. The Program, which is ‘on the air every week in June, is heard over WSB at 8;30 Sunday morn ing. Church Services, 11:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m . Church School-10:15 a. m. ioung People’s Service, 6:30 P. m. Hev. J. B. Smith, Pastor. Baptist Activities A group of members of the r ai ?. tls h Training Union at G. S. t i* A-. Milledgeville, conducted e evening service at the Perry Wist Church Sunday. The Putation was headed by Dr. T. colle e a eac^er th e Morning Worship Service 11:30. Sunday School, 10:15 a. m. Lvening Worship 8:00 p. m. praining Union. 7:00 p. m. p Prayer Service, 8:00 Hev J. A. Ivey, Pastor. Ration Round-Up 5 Uga r Stamp No. 49, good for J Pounds expires August 31. Do,’n^ re ? tam P N°- 9, good for 5 Pires d (w f K Ug oi for ex ‘ y res October 31, 1946, Houston t JJtutnuil jpERRY-GRAPHS 1 1 | FARMERS found some cheer Hast week in clear skies that al lowed them to harvest their gram whip the grass and get their fruit ready for market. Just as they were finishing up their work last Saturday, wel come rains fell and were follow ed by a clearing Sunday. Peaches I n . carload lots began moving, with Kal-Jim Farm near Houston Lake taking the lead with two cars by the middle of last week, and more to come from growers all around. Th e big packing shed of the Southern Fruit Dis tributors got into action with the first heavy picking of Uneedas. lor the farmers, things were looking a lot better. THANK YOU We’ve been a publisher for three months now without miss ing an issue. We have only 74 years and nine months to go to equal the record of our predeces sors. At this time, we wish to thank you for your cooperation, j which has resulted in a 15 per jcent increase in The Home Jour j nal’s circulation in the 90 days prior to June 1. Now our slo gan, “Nearly Every Home Flas The Home Journal,” is more nearly true than ever. C. E. John 3L Eubanks, Navy Vet Dies Lt. Commander John Law-1 rence Eubanks, 37, a native of I Elko who served in the Pacific for three years, died of a heart) ,i attack at the U. S. Naval Hos pital, Dallas, Texas, Monday { morning. Commander Eubanks was the son of the late John Lawrence Eubanks, Sr., and Mrs. Willie Poole Eubanks. He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Edith Watson of Bonaire, now of ! Macon; two daughters, Laurice |and Patricia; two sisters, Mrs.O. ■E. Marshall of Macon and Mrs. |J. R. Walters of Mt. Pleasant, S. C., and a brother, Paul W. Eubanks, Monterey, Calif. A member of the Naval Re serve, Coftimaider Eubanks was called into service in 1942 and served in the Pacific until De cember, 1945, when he was as signed to Jacksonville, Fla. He was on terminal leave from the Navy and was visiting friends in Texas at the time of his death. Arrangements for the funeral with full military honors was be ing arranged by Perry Memorial Chapel. Cook Files Motion For New Trial Attorneys for Thomas Cook, convicted by a Houston county superior court jury of assaulting an 8-year-old girl at Warner Rob ins, have filed a motion for a new trial. A hearing on the motion will be held in Perry June 28 at 10 a.m. The motion was filed by ’ Grady Gillon of Macon and A.M. 1 (Phil) Anderson of Perry, coun ■ sel for Cook. They seek a new trial on general grounds. Cook was convicted May 9 af ter a trial that lasted four days, i and the jury set his sentence at l from 18 to 20 years in a state penitentiary. He is in custody at Perry awaiting a hearing on the motion for a new trial. F.F.A. Officers Attend Meeting I j By BILLY CLARK ’ / ,1 The newly elected officers of 'the Perry F.F.A. Chapter and ,' the adviser, John Etheredge, at tended the First District F.F.A. Rally at Tifton last Saturday. The new officers are Edwin i Thompson, president; Billy Gray; j ivice president: Charles Hicks, j II secretary: Clinton Cooper, Jr., 1 treasurer, and Billy Clark, re-1 | porter. One of the main events of the ; [day was the public speaking con-| 1 test in which Billy Gray of our /chapter participated. ' " 1 Planting Gladiolus Any good garden soil is suitable 1 fpr growing gladiolus. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 6. 1946 Food Drive Quotas Set The time has arrived for us to do something about the starving people of the world, or say, by our actions, that we do not care. We do not believe this to be true, so, with the backing of the Ki wanis Club and many other peo ple of the County,we are launch ing our drive for this worthy cause bn June 10. We believe that two weeks is sufficient time for county to do what it should and we do not be lieve in a long drawn out drive, so, make your plans to see some of the committeemen during this period and make your contribu tion. This is a busy season for most of us and it will be neces sary for each one to do his or her part in order that a canvass may not be necessary. Below are the goals for the different communities in the county as set up by the commit tee, and the committees for the communities. Let every one work to see that our county goes over the top. It is hoped that most of the contributions will be in cashj rather than food. For some rea-1 son the emphasis has been j changed since the drive wasi named. The goal for the county is $?,- 000 or 8,000 No. 2 cans of food. Members of the county com mittee are, John Etheredge, chairman; E. P. Staples, S. W. j Hickson, Claude Andrew and Cooper Etheridge. The quotas assigned the vari ous communities are as follows: Perry, $750 or 3,000 No. 2 cans; Claude Andrew, C. C. Pierce and Lewis Harper. Warner Robins: $5OO or 2,000 cans; Bert Rumble and T. J. Cater, Jr. Bonaire: $2OO or 800 cans; Mrs. Wilkinson, Claude Watson. Henderson; $l5O or 600 cans; Mrs. Warren Hodge, Mrs, Pep 1 Newberry. Elko: $l5O or 600 cans; Mrs. Jake Eason, Mrs. Nick Buff, Grovania: $lOO or 400 cans; Doyle McElheney, Willis Har rison, Centerville; $lOO or 400 cans; R. F. Scarborough. Wesley Johnson. Hayneville: $5O or 200 cans; D. H. Daniel, L. M. McCormick. John Etheredge, County Chairman. Class Graduates At Warner Robins Twenty-eight seniors received) their diplomas at closing exer-j cises at Warner Robins Fligh, School Wednesday night, May 22. At the graduation exercises, seniors who received their di plomas were Gloria Adkins, Elizabeth Anderson, Henry An derson, Evelyn Bigbce, Eloise Brantley, Charlie Brantley, Elea nor Brooks, Hazel Browne, James Carpenter, Joan Claxton, William Deese, Frances Edgar, Mary Feeney. Marsene Howard, De lano Hardman, Rayford Jones, Betty Kirkland, Dorothy Lewis, Ruby Lindsey, Joe Overton, James Purvis, Patricia Parker, Vernon Register, Jo Ann Weav er, Tressie Wells, Lascal Wyatt, Virginia Wilkes, and Hilda Wall. FRED CARTER GRADUATES Frederick Warren Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carter of Bonaire, will be graduated from North Georgia College June 10 in its last class of junior college diploma candidates. The college has been restored to a four-year rating beginning in September, Graduation exercises will be held in the afternoon and a reception will follow on the campus. Veteran Medical Plan Explained Any veteran who needs medi cal attention fora service con | nected condition may be treated ,by his own personal physician if there is no VA installation near by or VA designated physician available, Fred E. Leister, Man ager of the Veterans Adminis tion Sub-Regional Office at Ma con, announced. Pierce Wins, Meets Stars Bubber Pierce’s Tigers won the first half of the Perry Soft ball League season Sunday when Francis Nunn held Clint Coop er’s Rebels to seven hits to win, 10 to 4, The victory gives the Pierce men the right to meet the All-Star team of the league in a two out of three-game series this Sunday. J. B. Peavy was the only Rebel to get more than one hit off Nunn and Aldine Lasseter and Walter Gray got a double apiece for the only extra base hits. Lawton Daniel, Skeet Chapman and Harris Rape led the batting attack for Pierce with three hits each. Rape got two doubles. Ivey Wins, 9-8 Richard Ogletree’s Panthers, who started the season with four straight victories, took a licking from Bobby Ivey, 9 to 8, and thereby lost an opportunity to tie Cooper tor second place. Ogletree’s men got 14 hits to Ivey’s 12 but costly errors decid ed the game. j After a long dry spell, Billy I Bledsoe’s Lions won a game, de | feating Ed Thompson, 8 to 7, in la see-saw battle decided by Lorie j Gunter’s single in the last in- Ining. Thompson’s club outhit the Lions 11 to 7. 1 he Standings Won Lost Pierce 8 2 Cooper 6 4 Ogletree 5 5 Thompson 4 6 Ivey 4 6 Bledsoe 3 7 Games Sunday, June 9 Pierce vs. All-Stars, 2 p.m. Safety Stressed At Penn-Dixie Proud of their record of 8 ac cident less years in the last 13, employees of the Penn-Dixie Ce , ment Corp. plant at Clinchfield pledged their efforts last Friday with the safety trophy of the Portland Cement Association for the ninth time. At a ceremony at the plant, Claude Hutto, the oldest em ployee in point of service, raised the safety fiag to signify the opening of a concerted safety effort during June. If the plant operates the remainder of 1946 with-out a loss-time accident, the trophy will be awarded to the I employees for the ninth time, j Walter Riley, industrial rela | tions director, handed to Supt. ]M. L. Silcox, the signed safety .pledges of all plant employees. Mr. Silcox thanked the personnel for the pledge of cooperation to to maintain efficient operation. Mayor Praises Men Mayor Francis Nunn, the principal speaker, told the em ployees they should be proud of j their safety record since the be ginning of the safety program in 1933. The plant won the trophy of the Portland Cement Associa tion in 1933, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40 and 42. In pledging their ef forts for safety, Mr. Nunn said, the mp" had considered their physical and mental comfort, j efficiency of operations, money values lost in accidents, and a natural pride in a winning safety 1 program. Mr. Silcox announced the ■ sponsorship of a slogan contest, with a Savings Bond as the 1 prize for the best safety slogan , submitted in the “June No Ac ijcident Campaign.” .\ Rev. J. A. Ivey, pastor of the I Perry Baptist Church, pronounc- I ed the invocation. ( I Invited guests for the flag- J raising ceremony included Dr. A. JG, Hendrick, plant physician; ;S. A. Nunn, attorney; E. P. Sta | pies, superintendent of Perry I High School, and Cooper Ether jidge, editor of the Home Journal, i The plant was expected to re -1 sume operations this week after a curtailment of production be | cause of the coal and rail strikes. Welcome Home Thomas L. Swain and James j W. Phelps, Warner Robins, have jbeen discharged from the Navy. BELMONT DENNIS Dennis Speaks Here A. Belmont Dennis, editor of The Covington News and four other Georgia weeklies, spoke to the Perry Kiwanis Club Tuesday. He was Kiwanis gov ernor when the Perry club was organized, He is a candidate for lieutenant governor of Georgia. John T. Miller Dies at Age 82 John Thomas Miller, Sr., 82, one of Houston county’s most prominent merchants and farm ers, died in a Macon hospital Tuesday. He had been prominent in Houston county business and farming activities since 1890. He was selected as a Master Farmer, one of 12 men so honor ed in the United States in 1980. He was a member of the Warner Robins Methodist Church and the Rutledge F. and A. M.Lodge 298. His wife, the former Miss Mamie 1). Grace, died in 1932. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at Liberty Methodist Church and burial was in the church cemetery. Survivors include two daugh ters, Mrs. R.C. Paul, Lexington, Ga., and Mrs. J. R. Sharp, Jack sonville, Fla.: one son, John T. Miller, Jr., Warner Robins, and five grandchildren. Capt. Dole Wins Army Silver Star Frederic F. Dole of Colorado Springs,, Colo., whose wife is the former Miss Jesselyn Griggs of Perry, has won the Silver Star for gallantry in action in Italv in 1945 while serving as a captain of a mountain division. At Camp Carson, Colo., last week, Caotain Dole received the medal and citation reading, in part: • ‘Exposing nimself many times to better lead his men, the high sense of duty, keen tactical ability and daring fearlessness of Captain Dole enabled the moun tain infantrymen to surge on ■ ward, drive the enemy from a vital position, and achieve their objective.” Captain Dole also holds the Bronze Star with two clusters , for action in Italy. Captain and Mrs. Dole are making their home at Colorado , Springs, Potrol Launches Safety Campaign During the first week of the : Traffic Safety Check Program being conducted by the Peace Of ; ficers of Georgia, 6,205 cars were checked and 2,880 failed to meet requirements, Sergeant C. D. Leverette, who is in command at ! the Perry Post of the Georgia State Patrol, said. Motorists whose cars barely met requirements were urged to have adjustments or repairs ’ made at once. ‘‘The results of the program are very encouraging,” Sergeant Leverette said. ‘‘People have begun to realize that their cars ’ must last for a long time yet and are cooperating with the police in these spot inspections.” DRIVERS’ LICENSES The Validating Machine for i issuing drivers’ licenses ‘‘while i you wait” will be in Perry June 8. 12, 15, 17, 19. Nearly Every Home Has The Home Journal ESTABLISHED 1870 Pledge Given By Talmadge Former Governor Eugene Tal madge brought his comeback campaign for governor to Hous ton county last Friday with the assertion that the white primary is the only issue in the current race. Mr. Talmadge promised to re store the white primary if he is elected governor and to main tain the Jim Crow laws to keep Negroes in their place. If the Negro controls the gov ernor’s election this year, white office-holders may find it neces sary two years from now to knock on the doors of Negro houses “with their hats in their hands”and kiss the Negro babies to win election, the candidate said. White Vote Only “I have been elected Governor of Georgia three times by the white people, and that is the only way I want it,” the former governor said. “I won’t get a Ne gro vote except by accident, I know that.” He said Henry A. Wallace, the secretary of commerce, isa mem ber of the Communist Party and seeks to “ram the Negro down the throats of Georgia.” He de scribed Wallace as the greatest enemy President Truman has. All the candidates agree on all the issues with the exception of the white primary question, Tal madge said, The Ex-governor said Henry W. Grady was the head of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia when he ran out the carpetbaggers and indicated he would follow Grad’ys lead. Talmadge Promises Talmadge said he would make the following improvements in Georgia without raising taxes: 1. Raise teachers’ salaries 50 per cent. 2. Put on the largest road building program the state ever saw. 3. Give veterans free drivers’ licenses (“because if they can drive an Army truck on German soil they can drive a car on Geor gia’s highways.”) 4. Give veterans free busi ness licenses for life. 5. Give veterans exemption from ad valorem taxes for 5 years. 6. Establish hospitals ‘‘so there will be one nearby.” 7. Match federal funds for old age pensions “as high as the federal gnvernment will go,” 8. Establish a veterinary hos pital in South Georgia. 9. Put every sheriff on the rolls of the Georgia Bureau of In vestigation. Talmadge said although Riv ers claimed to have given the state free school books, he (Tal madge) actually did it; that the present administration has wast ed the state’s money; that he left 11 millions in the treasury when he completed his first term and that he has never failed on a campaign promise. The candidate said the Georgia newspapers are copying their ed itorials from the Atlanta World, a Negro newspaper, and that all of the editorials in the papers that oppose him are inspired by the Negro paper, the Pittsburgh Courier Harald. < Plenty State Hams Talmadge said he used to in vite Georgia people up to the mansion in Atlanta and ask them to bring their own hams. Now, he said, he wants them to come whether they can bring their own rations or not. “Come on up there to see me and if I don’t have any hams we can get some of those state hams from down yonder at Reidsville, ” the candidate said. Talmadge was introduced by Sam A, Nunn, Perry attorney, who has long been an ardant ad mirer of Mr. Talmadge, Nunn praised the former governor for his courage and “devotion to Georgia.” Seated on the platform with the candidate, besides Mr. Nunn, were Ur. R.B. Gilbert, of Green ville, John S. Candler, son of Asa Candler, Atlanta; D.C.Chap man, operator of a Macon ga rage; and newspapermen. A crowd of 250 heard Mr. Tal madge.